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Bridge Loading, Reliaility and Redundancy: Concepts and Applications

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The objective of this paper is to summarize recent efforts in bridge loading, reliability and redundancy research. It is hoped that these efforts will contribute to achieve more uniform performance and reliability in bridge system-oriented design and evaluation than is possible with just the LRFD component-oriented methodology.

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Frangopol, D.M. (1992). Bridge Loading, Reliaility and Redundancy: Concepts and Applications. In: Rackwitz, R., Thoft-Christensen, P. (eds) Reliability and Optimization of Structural Systems ’91. Lecture Notes in Engineering, vol 76. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-84753-0_1

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