Citation

Bakht B, Mufti A. J. Civil Struct. Health Monit. 2018; 8(1): e3.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2018, Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group)

DOI

10.1007/s13349-017-0256-1

PMID

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Abstract

During the past 40 years, the authors and their close colleagues have been involved in evaluating the load carrying capacities of bridges through instrumentation and testing. This note summarises the major outcomes of tests on 101 bridges [1]. Most of these tests are reported in published documents, which are provided in the report. Details of the remaining few tests are stored in files that are still in the custody of the authors. Of the 101 bridges, 3 were tested for their ultimate load carrying capacities, 16 were tested to confirm their behaviour, and 82 were proof tested to determine their optimum load carrying capacities. The summaries of the various types of tests are given...

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