REVISITING DURABILITY OF BRIDGE SOLID PIERS

Vulnerability Reduction for Bridge Piers

Revisiting Software Security: Durability Perspective

Security is a peak significant quality element in the pitch of software engineering. Software security improvement is easily done with the support of factors, models and metrics of security. Software security should be analyzed with the help of its security factors. Security dimension is the main attribute in evaluation, executing, and calculating security in the way to organize and develop qua...

Evaluation of the Extent of Backwater Effects of Bridge Piers

Introduction... The construction or renovation of bridges may require placement of bridge piers in the channel or floodplain of natural waterways. These piers will obstruct the flow and cause an increase in water levels upstream of the bridge for subcritical flows. The increase in the water level is called the backwater. The amount of backwater caused by piers depends mainly on their geometric ...

Prediction of scour depth around bridge piers using Gaussian process

A reliable prognostics framework is essential to prevent catastrophic failure of bridges due to scour. In the U.S., scour accounts for almost 60% of bridge failures. Currently available techniques in the literature for predicting scour are mostly based on empirical equations and deterministic regression models, like Neural Networks and Support Vector Machines, and do not predict the evolution o...

Experimental Investigation of Seismically Resistant Bridge Piers under Blast Loading

This paper reports the findings of research examining the blast resistance of bridge piers that are designed in accordance with current knowledge and specifications to ensure ductile seismic performance. Blast testing was conducted on 1/4 scale ductile RC columns, and nonductile RC columns retrofitted with steel jacketing. The seismically designed RC and steel jacketed RC columns did not exhibi...