Steel-Concrete Composite Bridges: Design, Life Cycle Assessment, Maintenance, and Decision-Making by D. Martínez-Muñoz, J. V. Martí, V. Yepes

“…Steel-concrete composite bridges are used as an alternative to concrete bridges because of their ability to adapt their geometry to design constraints and the possibility of reusing some of the materials in the structure. …”
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Bayesian Probabilistic Framework for Damage Identification of Steel Truss Bridges under Joint Uncertainties by Wei Zheng, Yi Yu

“…When such approach is applied for truss bridges, truss joints are usually modeled as either simple hinges or rigid connections. …”
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NKAPL facilitates transcription pause-release and bridges elongation to initiation during meiosis exit by Zhenlong Kang, Chen Xu, Shuai Lu, Jie Gong, Ruoyu Yan, Gan Luo, Yuanyuan Wang, Qing He, Yifei Wu, Yitong Yan, Baomei Qian, Shenglin Han, Zhiwen Bu, Jinwen Zhang, Xian Xia, Liang Chen, Zhibin Hu, Mingyan Lin, Zheng Sun, Yayun Gu, Lan Ye

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Biaxial Shear Load Capacity of Anchor System for Quick-Hardening Track on Railway Bridges by Kyoung Chan Lee, Il-Wha Lee, Seong-Cheol Lee

“…Quick-hardening railway track was developed to rapidly convert old-style ballast track to slab track in order to improve its maintainability and ride comfort. On bridges, quick-hardening track is applied in a segmented structure to reduce the temperature constraint, and anchors at the centers of the segments securely couple the track to the bridge. …”
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A Form Finding Method for Arch Bridges Using Parametric Level Set Method by Yadong Shen, Jianhu Feng, Xiaohan Cheng, Xuntao Wang, Changhao Zhang

“…However, there are a few attempts in bridge form design. In this paper, the parametric level set method is utilized to solve the form finding of arch bridges. …”
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Asset Management Business Model for Design, Realization, and Maintenance of Fibre Reinforced Polymer Bridges by Rizal Sebastian

“…This paper particularly addresses the market implementation of Fibre Reinforced Polymer (FRP) for bridges. It presents the concept of demand and supply chain innovation as being investigated within two ongoing European collaborative research projects (FP7) titled Trans-IND and PANTURA. …”
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Damage identification in RC bridges by confronting two approaches: visual inspection and numerical analysis by Ayad Mohammed, Boumechra Nadir, Hamdaoui Karim

“…The present article aims to summarize the research study that was conducted the efficiency of methods and techniques designed for the detection and localization of faults in civil engineering structures, particularly in bridge structures. The diagnosis of a real reinforced concrete bridge by a visual inspection is presented. …”
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Performance of Pier-to-Pier Cap Connections of Integral Bridges under Thermal and Seismic Loads by Siva Avudaiappan, Kinson Prabu, Deban Selvaraj, Kiran Raja, Paul Oluwaseun Awoyera, Erick I Saavedra Flores

“…In general, most highway bridges are constructed using prestressed concrete or steel girders. …”
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Seismic Vulnerability Analysis of Multispan Continuous Bridges Subjected to Mainshock-Aftershock Earthquake Sequences by Yan Liang, Yukun Cui, Chao Ren

“…A multispan continuous 3D bridge model is established on the basis of OpenSees platform, and 160 mainshock-aftershock (MA) sequences are constructed in accordance with the bridge site to study their influence on the seismic vulnerability of bridges. …”
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Karst-Based Geotourism in Eastern Carphatian Serbia: Exploration and Evaluation of Natural Stone Bridges by Aleksandar Antić, Nemanja Tomić, Slobodan Marković

Subjects: “…natural stone bridges…”
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Dynamic Response and Robustness Evaluation of Cable-Supported Arch Bridges Subjected to Cable Breaking by Guotao Shao, Hui Jin, Ruinian Jiang, Yue Xu

“…Cable-supported arch bridges have had many cable break accidents, which led to dramatic deck damage and even progressive collapse. …”
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Experimental Evaluation of the Seismic Response of Skewed Bridges with Emphasis on Poundings between Girder and Abutments by Ziqi Yang, Chern Kun, Nawawi Chouw

“…Ignoring pounding effects, the 30° skewed bridges could experience more girder rotations than the 45° skewed bridges. …”
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Analysis of Uneven Settlement of Long-Span Bridge Foundations Based on SBAS-InSAR by Kaixuan Zhang, Weifo Xiao, Haojie Zhu, Shaowei Ning, Shenjiang Huang, Dongxing Jin, Rong A, Bhesh Raj Thapa

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Edge-centric connectome-genetic markers of bridging factor to comorbidity between depression and anxiety by Zhiyi Chen, Yancheng Tang, Xuerong Liu, Wei Li, Yuanyuan Hu, Bowen Hu, Ting Xu, Rong Zhang, Lei Xia, Jing-Xuan Zhang, Zhibing Xiao, Ji Chen, Zhengzhi Feng, Yuan Zhou, Qinghua He, Jiang Qiu, Xu Lei, Hong Chen, Shaozheng Qin, Tingyong Feng

“…Abstract Depression-anxiety comorbidity is commonly attributed to the occurrence of specific symptoms bridging the two disorders. However, the significant heterogeneity of most bridging symptoms presents challenges for psychopathological interpretation and clinical applicability. …”
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Circumferential Expansion Property of Composite Wrapping System for Main Cable Protection of Suspension Bridge by Pengfei Cao, Hai Fang, Weiqing Liu, Yong Zhuang, Yuan Fang, Chenglin Li

“…A composite wrapping system for main cable protection of suspension bridges was designed by using prepreg fiber-reinforced composites and nitrile rubber. …”
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Modal Parameter Identification Based on Hilbert Vibration Decomposition in Vibration Stability of Bridge Structures by Yingzhi Xia, Hui Li, Zhezhe Fan, Jiyong Xiao

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Impact of periampullary diverticulum on endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography: bridging the gap between fiction and reality by Sameh Afify, Maha Elsabaawy, Ahmed Ezz Al-Arab, Ahmed Edrees

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Study on scour simulation and boundary condition conversion technology for a shallow foundation bridge by Gangping Fan, Huanzhe Li, Tianzhuo Wang, Jian Che, Xing Li, Chunyang Dou, Tong Wu

Subjects: “…Shallow buried foundation bridge…”
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Multilevel Association Rule Mining for Bridge Resource Management Based on Immune Genetic Algorithm by Yang Ou, Zheng Jiang Liu, Hamid Reza Karimi, Ying Tian

“…This paper is concerned with the problem of multilevel association rule mining for bridge resource management (BRM) which is announced by IMO in 2010. …”
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A Highly Accurate and Efficient Analytical Approach to Bridge Deck Free Vibration Analysis by D.J. Gorman, L. Garibaldi

“…Exact agreement is found when computed results are compared with known eigenvalues for bridge decks with all spans of equal length. Mode shapes and eigenvalues are presented for typical bridge decks of three and four span lengths. …”
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