EN 1993-Eurocode 3 – Part 1-5 gives unified European design rules for plated structural elements made of steel which may be subject to shear lag and local and/or global plate buckling. As these rules may be novel to many designers who so far have worked with traditional national rules this repor...
The present report gives charts and expressions for computing the equivalent stiffness and damping of bridge piers of rectangular hollow cross section at maximum displacement within the framework of displacement based design and assessment of bridges, based on the results of parametric non-linea...
Bridges with span lengths of 15 to 30 m have been mostly built as concrete bridges due to the fact that the superstructure only represents a small part of the total construction works for the main contractor who deals with concrete foundations (piers and abutments) and therefore tends to maintai...
