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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"road bridge"”.
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Design of a single track, iron, Warren Girder Rail Road Bridge
Thesis: B.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Civil Engineering, 1874
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Freshwater requirements of Knysna Estuary
… to 1 or 2 parts per thousand at the National Road Bridge for three successive tides following a one-in-two-year flood -1 ( 40 m 3 s ) • The response of the biota to changing salinities is described using available literature. It appears that there will be a gradual decline in primary and …
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A Descriptive Survey of Freshwater Unionidae Bivalves in Five Creeks Located in West Central Georgia
… to be surveyed were usually located at a road bridge or some landmark easily identifiable for geographical positioning. Collecting methods included the use of a small rake in sandy or silty substrate, visual detection of siphons or trails in the soft sediment, manual probing in rocky …
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Road Pothole Detection Method Using Built-in Sensors In Smartphone
… on vehicle as a tool to detect potholes on the road. The data collected and pre-processed by smartphone is then analysed to obtain the result. The history and status of pothole detection study is firstly discussed. The traditional pothole detection method has two disadvantages: 1, low …
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Ruin[ed] edge[iness] ruined landscape: Inverting and resurfacing the buried ruin with the scarred landscape
This dissertation focuses on the Voortrekker road strip between Salt River Circle and the Black river. It is bounded by the railway lines on the western side, and the Black River and M5 elevated freeway bridge on the eastern side of the strip. The Voortrekker road bridge over the railway line …
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Private finance initiative and major construction firms in Japan
… the case studies relevant to the private toll road project or the Japanese PFI, this thesis develops a framework for prospective toll road/bridge/tunnel projects utilizing the Japanese PFI scheme. For the viable types of projects (such as bridges/tunnels or bypass road projects with technically …
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Application of advanced non-destructive testing methods on bridge health assessment and analysis
Bridge structures have an important role in economic, social and environmental aspects of society life. Bridges are also subject to a natural process of deterioration of construction materials, as well as natural and environmental events such as flooding, freezing, thawing etc. Health monitoring …
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Decision-Making in Reuse of Highway Bridge Foundations
<p>According to the 2019 National Bridge Inventory data from Federal Highway Administration, the average age of highway bridges in the U.S.A. is 45 years, with almost 43% of existing highway bridges being older than 50 years, and eight percent of all U.S. national highway bridges being in poor …
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Resurrection of the Bombay trans-harbour link project by using Wheaton's monocentric models of urban land use
… Link (BTHL) Project, a 16 kilometers long road bridge proposed by the Indian Planning Commission to connect the island city of Bombay and the surrounding mainland, was considered to be an excellent case study for demonstrating the application of this technique. This project would mean a …
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Experimental Study of Tsunami-Induced Loads on Bridges
… tsunami loads on coastal structures and bridges shows a large variation in the values estimated by the proposed equations and the lack of general agreement even on the types of forces imposed on the bridge decks. Reviewing the available literature revealed that the magnitudes of the …
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Enabling safe, smart, and sustainable Transportation Cyber-Physical Systems with Artificial Intelligence
… traditional engineering principles underpinning road, bridge, and infrastructure design, the past decade has seen a merger of computational and data-driven paradigms. Consequently, the forerunners of this sector are not just traditional civil engineering entities anymore. Technology-centric …
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Integration of Traffic and Structural Health Monitoring Systems Using A Novel Nothing-On-Road (NOR) Bridge-Weigh-In-Motion (BWIM) System
Bridges are vital components of the U.S. transportation network. However, every year, the transportation agencies report a large number of aging bridges that are structurally damaged. Also, evolving traffic and particularly the overloaded traversing traffic can threaten the bridges' integrity and …
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Ein Beitrag zur experimentell gestützten Tragsicherheitsbewertung von Massivbrücken
… In this thesis, it has been investigated how road pavements, the geometry and bridge caps reduce the actions on concrete bridge structures and how these influences should be taken into account in the experimental evaluation of the bending capacity by an additional test load increment. In …