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Apr 26, 2012
Bridge Performance during the 2010 M8.8 Chile Earthquake
Authors: P. W. Yen [email protected], G. D. Chen [email protected], I. Buckle [email protected], T. Allen [email protected], D. Alzamora [email protected], J. Ger [email protected], and J. G. Arias [email protected]Author Affiliations
Publication: Structures Congress 2011
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Field observations and plausible reasons of damaged bridges are presented and their implications to bridge design are discussed. In general, bridge substructures behaved satisfactorily except that a few columns suffered shear failure. Reinforced concrete shear keys served their design purposes, performing well when they functioned as part of the lateral restraint system at the bottom flange of girders. Vertical seismic bars were widely used to restrain the vertical motion of decks and they also performed well. Lateral steel stoppers were also used to provide vertical and lateral restraints on girders but were largely unsuccessful due to their weak connection to capbeams. Many spans of precast, prestressed, discontinuous girder bridges with continuous decks fell from their supports due likely to significant rotation of their superstructure. Other types of bridge damage were related to ground shaking, ground settlement and liquefaction-induced lateral spreading.
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© 2011 American Society of Civil Engineers.
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Published online: Apr 26, 2012
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ASCE Technical Topics:
- Bridge decks
- Bridge design
- Bridge engineering
- Bridges
- Bridges (by type)
- Business management
- Concrete
- Decks
- Design (by type)
- Developing countries
- Earthquakes
- Engineering fundamentals
- Engineering materials (by type)
- Failure modes
- Forensic engineering
- Geohazards
- Geotechnical engineering
- Girder bridges
- Girders
- Materials engineering
- Practice and Profession
- Reinforced concrete
- Shear failures
- Structural engineering
- Structural members
- Structural systems
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Office of Infrastructure, R&D, Turner-FairBank Highway Research Center, Federal Highway Administration, 6300 Georgetown Pike, McLean, VA 22101.E-mail: [email protected]
Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering, Missouri University of Science and Technology, 1400 N. Pine St., Rolla, MO 65409-0030.E-mail: [email protected]
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Nevada, Reno, NV 89557.E-mail: [email protected]
State Materials Laboratory, Washington State Department of Transportation, P.O. Box 47365, Olympia, WA 98504-7365.E-mail: [email protected]
Resource Center, Federal Highway Administration, 12300 W. Dakota Ave., Suite 340, Lakewood, CO 80228.E-mail: [email protected]
Florida Division, Federal Highway Administration, 545 John Knox Road, Suite 200 Tallahassee, FL 32303.E-mail: [email protected]
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Nevada, Reno, NV 89557-0152.E-mail: [email protected]
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