Cantilever slabs are among the most vulnerable structural elements at blast loading. As they are indispensable to most structures, it is important to investigate the behaviour of cantilever slabs in a blast environment ...

Evaluation of existing steel bridges becomes vital due to natural aging, increasing load spectra, deterioration caused by corrosion, increasing seismic demand, and other problems. In the result, bridge structures exposed ...

Over the past decades there have been many damage examples of older steel bridge structures due to corrosion around the world. Even though there are some published methods to assess the strength reduction due to corrosion ...

Bridges play a major role in road networks. Continuous health monitoring and proper maintenance of bridges is required to obtain the maximum service from them. Life evaluation of bridges is part of the health monitoring ...

Railway lines consist of steel truss bridges which are very old and have many problems due to inadequate maintenance system or need to increase its capacity to carry higher loads. To undertake above challenges there should ...

Since 1990s various methods have been proposed by researchers to estimate the fatigue strengths of metals at gigacycle fatigue regime (number of cycles > 108). As testing of metals in the gigacycle regime requires much ...

Corrosion causes strength deterioration of aged steel infrastructures and hence careful evaluation of their remaining load-carrying capacities are of high importance in maintenance engineering. To develop a more reliable ...

This paper presents a simple criterion to predict the failure of steel structures due to the interaction effect of fracture and fatigue which is termed as extremely-low cycle fatigue (ELCF) failure. The criterion has been ...