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Reliability-Based Progressive Collapse And Redundancy Analysis Of Bridge Systems, Feng Miao
Reliability-Based Progressive Collapse And Redundancy Analysis Of Bridge Systems, Feng Miao
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Highway bridges like most structural systems are usually designed on a member by member basis and little consideration is provided to the effect of a local failure on system safety. There are concerns that some systems optimized to meet code-specified member design criteria may not provide sufficient levels of structural redundancy to withstand a possible local failure. In fact, a local failure of one structural element may result in the failure of another element creating a chain reaction that might progress throughout the whole structure or a major portion of it leading to a catastrophic collapse. Several recent catastrophic structural …