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Highway Bridge Assessment For Dynamic Interaction With Critical Vehicles, Daniel Cantero, Eugene J. Obrien, Arturo González, Bernard Enright, Cillian Rowley
Highway Bridge Assessment For Dynamic Interaction With Critical Vehicles, Daniel Cantero, Eugene J. Obrien, Arturo González, Bernard Enright, Cillian Rowley
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Dynamic vehicle-bridge interaction is often considered for the most common classes of vehicle such as the 5-axle articulated truck. However, the dynamic response of bridges to this type of trucks is quite different to the response to the vehicles more likely to feature in maximum-in-lifetime traffic loading events. This paper focuses on large (>100 tonne) cranes and crane-type vehicles that have been recorded at Weigh-in-Motion sites in Europe. This paper analyses the total bending moment due to these vehicles on short to medium span bridges and compare them to 5- axle articulated trucks. To account for the variability in …