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AASHTO Fracture Control Plan and Revisions to LRFD Fatigue Design Specifications
Primarily in response to failures during the late 1960's and 1970's, the material, design, fabrication, shop inspection, and in-service inspection requirements ...
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Fatigue Cracking and Inspection of High-mast Lighting Towers
Recent failures of high-mast lighting towers in several states have raised questions as to the robustness and safety of the existing inventory of similar ...
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Response of Fire Loading on Multi-story Continuous Steel Columns
This project investigates the inelastic buckling analysis of continuous steel wide flange gravity columns under partial fire loading. During a fire event, ...
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Structural Integrity of Steel Gravity Framing Systems - Purdue Slab Component Tests
Component tests on the concrete slab on metal deck include uniaxial tests to evaluate behavior in both orthogonal directions with respect to the deck ...
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Laboratory Testing of Railroad Flatcars For Use as Highway Bridges on Low-Volume Roads to Determine Ultimate Strength and Redundancy
Several counties in Indiana use retired railroad flatcars for a bridge superstructure to replace existing deteriorating county bridges. There are over 130 ...
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Member-level Redundancy in Built-up Steel Members
The objective of this research is to quantify the redundancy possessed by built-up steel members (bolted or riveted). Typically, built-up members will not ...
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