Large-scale fatigue testing of post-installed shear connectors in partially-composite bridge girders

Behaviour of Corroded Stud Shear Connectors under Fatigue Loading

Experimental investigation was conducted on corroded composite push-out specimens to study the behavior of shear studs subjected to fatigue loading. A total of eight standard EC4 push-out specimens were tested. The expected corrosion rate of test specimens ranged from 0 to 50%. The main purpose of these tests was to determine the fatigue life and the reduction effect caused by the corrosion on ...

Response of Fire Exposed Steel Bridge Girders

Finite Element Instability Analysis of the Steel Joist of Continuous Composite Beams with Flexible Shear Connectors

Composite steel/concrete beams may buckle in hogging bending regions. As the top flange of I-beam in that arrangement is restricted from any translational deformation and twist, the web will distort during buckling presenting a phenomenon often described as restricted distortional buckling. There are limited studies available in the literature of restricted distortional buckling of composite st...

Shear Strengthening Using Cfrp Sheets for Prestressed Concrete Bridge Girders in Manitoba, Canada

Post hoc power estimation in large-scale multiple testing problems

BACKGROUND The statistical power or multiple Type II error rate in large-scale multiple testing problems as, for example, in gene expression microarray experiments, depends on typically unknown parameters and is therefore difficult to assess a priori. However, it has been suggested to estimate the multiple Type II error rate post hoc, based on the observed data. METHODS We consider a class of...