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Identifying and modelling permit trucks for bridge loading.
- Source :
- Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers: Bridge Engineering; Dec2016, Vol. 169 Issue 4, p235-244, 10p
- Publication Year :
- 2016
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Abstract
- Accurate estimates of characteristic traffic load effects are essential in order to optimise bridge safety assessment. Permit trucks dominate the extreme upper tail of the truck loading distribution and as a result need careful examination. This paper proposes rules for filtering these trucks from weigh-in-motion data for both the USA and Europe. The importance of these trucks in critical bridge loading events is then examined for both regions. A Monte Carlo traffic simulation model is developed, which focuses on the accurate simulation of permit trucks. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- MONTE Carlo method
TRUCKS
GAMES of chance
MATHEMATICAL models
NUMERICAL analysis
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 14784637
- Volume :
- 169
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers: Bridge Engineering
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 119383878
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1680/bren.14.00031