Dear Giuseppe,
As suggested by others, two of the best references would be Dave Cebon's
book and the DIVINE project report. For expansion joints, Rob Heywood's part
of the DIVINE project would probably be most relevant. I also have a couple
of recent theses that may be interest. I will send these to you. Finally,
you should contact the Ministry of Transportation of Ontario for a report on
tests on modular expansion joints in the early 1990s. These tests were used
to update the Ontario Highway Bridge Design Code - this would also be a
useful reference. The Ontario Code has now be modified to be a Canadian
standard and will be published shortly by CSA International. You should
contact: www.csa-international.org
You could also try:
Agarwal, A.C. 1991. "Static and Dynamic Testing of a Modular Expansion Joint
in the Burlington Skyway." 3rd World Congress on Joint Sealing and Bearing
Systems for Concrete Structures, Toronto, ON.
Good luck,
Regards,
Mark Green
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From: Giuseppe Loprencipe
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Sent: 3/13/01 10:16 AM
Subject: Heavy Vehicle - Bridge joint interaction
I'm a PhD in University of Rome and I develop my activity of researcher
within the course "Design of Road Infrastructures".
This course introduces the techniques of design, planning and management
of the road infrastructures.
The course aims to the students of civil engineering.
In this period I am dealing with the problems of interaction between
vehicle and pavement and in particularly of the dynamic interactions
between the bridge joints and the heavy vehicles (truck). This with the
goal to determine, before of all, the dynamic actions existing in the
expansion joints of the bridges in the different traffic situation.
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I have already retrieved the following documentation.
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NCHRP Report n. 353 - Effects of Heavy-Vehicle .....
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NCHRP Report n. 402 - Fatigue design of modular bridge expansion
joints
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Handbook of vehicle-pavement interaction - CEBON D.
I would greatly appreciate any help (technical document, paper,
articles, ecc)
Best Regards
Dott. Ing. Giuseppe Loprencipe, PhD
Dipartimento di Idraulica, Trasporti e Strade
via Eudossiana, 18
00184 ROMA
tel. 0644585112
fax. 1782241353
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