Impact Effect Due To Pavement Irregularities On The Dynamic Response Of Bridges
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Free (open access)
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Volume
35
Pages
9
Published
1998
Size
580 kb
Paper DOI
10.2495/SU980481
Copyright
WIT Press
Author(s)
M. Abdel-Rohman, A. Al-Khaleefi and J. Al-Duaij
Abstract
This paper investigates the effect of pavement irregularities on the dynamic response of single span bridges. The irregularities in the bridge deck exist due to several factors such as the braking actions by heavy trucks, the artificial barriers at certain locations to reduce the vehicles speed, the misalignment at the expansion joints, and the climatic variations effects on the pavement materials. The irregularities in the bridge deck are modeled in this paper as either a continuous sinusoidal profile or as an individual hump of rectangular or sinusoidal shape located at certain points on the bridge. The bridge is modeled as a single span beam with simple supports. The dynamic response of the bridge represented by the maximum deflection and acc
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