The American Institute of Steel Construction task group, charged with considering model code changes in view of 2018 brittle fractures in twin built-up steel plate girders of vehicle bridges in San ...

The bottom flanges of two tapered plate girders at San Francisco's Salesforce Transit Center fractured several weeks after the bus depot opened to the public in 2018. The American Institute of Steel ...

Keywords: Seismic performance. Steel plate girder bridges. Superstructures. Seismic isolation systems. End cross frames. Buckling restrained braces (BRB). Base shear. Displacement. Abstract: The end ...

One promising technique for the seismic design of highway bridges with steel superstructures is to dissipate energy through the inelastic deformation of the end cross frames. These so-called ductile ...

Keywords: Seismic performance. Steel plate girder bridges. Superstructures. Cyclic tests. Shaking table tests. Transverse seismic loads. Flexural-torsional response ...