Effectiveness of using rubber bumper and restrainer on mitigating pounding and unseating damage of bridge structures subjected to spatially varying ground motions

Pounding and unseating damages to bridge decks have been observed in almost all the previous major earthquakes. Recent studies have highlighted that adjusting the fundamental periods of adjacent structural elements close to each other, the only method suggested by the codes to mitigate pounding and...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Shrestha, B., Hao, Hong, Bi, Kaiming
Format: Journal Article
Published: Pergamon 2014
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/26922