1 Department of Civil Engineering, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, United States, 2 Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, United States, 3 Department of Bridge and Tunnel Engineering, School of Transportation Science and Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China, 4 School of Civil Engineering, Harbin Institute o...

There is the work by Bridges et al (1999) on the key features of a constructive proof of the implicit function theorem, including some applications to physics and mechanics. For mixtures of logistic distributions such information is lacking, although a special instance of the implicit function theorem prevails therein. The theorem is needed to see that the ridgeline function, which carries info...

One of the serious damages of tremendous earthquakes is the damage to bridges as the major components in an    arterial road network, as relief operation is interrupted following cutting roads. Regardless of the magnitude and severity of an earthquake, other factors are also important in the strength and seismic performance of concrete bridges. Freezing-thawing cycles are among the factors, whi...

this paper presents a new bridge management system (j-bms). it is integrated with a concrete bridge rating expert system that can be used to evaluate the serviceability of existing concrete bridges. the proposed j-bms not only evaluates the performance of bridges, but also offers a rehabilitation strategy based on a combination of maintenance cost minimization and quality maximization. in this ...

Many researches have been currently conducted on the effects of fault distance on structures revealing that their seismic response can differ according to their distance from the fault. Suspension bridges due to their long period and high flexibility can be more sensitive to this phenomenon, especially in vertical vibration. Since the engineers tend to use longer spans, the length factor should...