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Prediction of Bridge Fires Characteristics Using Machine Learning
Bridges are an essential component of transportation systems for traffic passage across natural or man-made obstacles. Modern urban trends and growing travel patterns have resulted in a rise in the number of bridges to avoid road conflict. A major fire might cause irreversible structural …
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Experimental assessment of cracked steel beams under mechanical loading and elevated temperatures
Bridge fire is a major engineering problem that has been gaining attention by researchers and engineers. As reported in the New York Department of Transportation database, there has been approximately 50 cases of bridge collapse due to fire nationwide with many more cases where fires resulted in …
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Fire Hazard Assessment for Highway Bridges with Thermal Mechanical Modeling
Bridges are critical pieces of infrastructure important to public safety and welfare. Fires have the potential to damage bridges and have been responsible for taking many bridges out of service. The hazard fire poses to bridges is a little studied risk unlike more common threats such as impact, …
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Assessment of Passive Fire Protection on Steel-Girder Bridges
<p>Bridges in the US are severely damaged or suffer collapse from fires at significant rates, even when compared to other hazards such as earthquakes. Fire-induced bridge collapses are perpetuated by the general lack of installed fire protection systems. Therefore, new materials and applications …
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Computational Study of Highway Bridges Structural Response Exposed to a Large Fire Exposure
The exposure from a localized vehicle fire has been observed to produce excessive damage onto highway bridge structural elements including complete collapse of the infrastructure. The occurrence of a fire beneath a bridge can lead to significant economic expense and loss of service even if the …