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The loading of highway bridges is in his nature constituted of millions of repetitive random load events. This type of loading causes material fatigue, fatigue cracks propagation and ultimately damage of the structure. The life expectancy of highway bridges to vehicle loads (traffic flow) is a very important problem and has been investigated by Tung [1], Sieniawska, Śniady [2] and that of railway bridges by Fryba [3] and many others.
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Sieniawska, R., Sniady, P. (1992). Reliability of the Bridge with Respect to Fatigue Crack Propagation. 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_27
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