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Arching in Deck Slabs

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The term deck slab is typically used in North America to describe the concrete slab of a girder bridge which supports the vehicle loads directly before transmitting their effects to the girders. In this chapter and elsewhere in this book, the term is used with this same meaning, rather than to describe a slab bridge as is done in some countries.

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Bakht, B., Mufti, A. (2015). Arching in Deck Slabs. In: Bridges. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-17843-1_4

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