Modeling structural degradation of RC bridge columns subjected to earthquakes and their fragility estimates

R Kumar, P Gardoni - Journal of Structural Engineering, 2012 - ascelibrary.org
… compute the degraded deformation capacity of flexural reinforced concrete (RC) bridge columns
as a … The model is developed for flexural RC columns because low-cycle fatigue is most …

Strength degradation of existing bridge columns under seismic loading

OA Jaradat, DI McLean… - Transportation research …, 1996 - journals.sagepub.com
… the column even after the lower hinging region degrades. The main objective of the study was
to characterize the flexural and shear behavior of older bridge columns … in degraded hinge …

Fragility increment functions for deteriorating reinforced concrete bridge columns

DE Choe, P Gardoni, D Rosowsky - Journal of engineering …, 2010 - ascelibrary.org
… Similarly, Enright and Frangopol (1998b) used the formulation proposed by Mori and
Ellingwood to assess the effects of the structural degradation due to corrosion on the time-variant …

Effect of seismic degradation on the fragility of reinforced concrete bridges

R Kumar, P Gardoni - Engineering Structures, 2014 - Elsevier
… effects of degradation not only on the structural capacity … degradation on the future seismic
vulnerability of RC bridges. Particularly, we focus on the degradation of the bridge columns

Inelastic damage analysis of reinforced concrete bridge columns based on degraded monotonic energy

RA Hindi, RG Sexsmith - Journal of Bridge Engineering, 2004 - ascelibrary.org
… Depending upon the importance of the bridge, different levels … the damage index of the bridge
columns in this study. The … to failure, the total degraded monotonic energy for the damaged …

Strength evaluation of deteriorated RC bridge columns

M Tapan, RS Aboutaha - Journal of Bridge Engineering, 2008 - ascelibrary.org
… This study can be used to accurately load rate bridge columns and thus the bridges. Structural
… For example, for the bridge column analyzed in this study, load rating for axial load or …

Seismic fragility analysis of deteriorating RC bridge columns with time-variant capacity index

H Cheng, HN Li, YB Yang, DS Wang - Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering, 2019 - Springer
… concrete (RC) bridge columns induced by corrosion based … the performance assessment of
corroded bridge columns. To be … RC structures, the bond degradation induced by corrosion at …

A proposed damage model for RC bridge columns under cyclic loading

RA Hindi, RG Sexsmith - Earthquake Spectra, 2001 - journals.sagepub.com
… of degradation in … degraded monotonic load-displacement capacity. The proposed damage
model takes into account all the parameters in the hysteretic behavior; stiffness degradation, …

Ground motion duration effects on hysteretic behavior of reinforced concrete bridge columns

YC Ou, J Song, PH Wang, L Adidharma… - Journal of Structural …, 2014 - ascelibrary.org
… (considering stiffness degradation), and Takeda model with strength degradation. … structures
with stiffness degradation and the effect increases as the strength of the structure degrades

Life-cycle seismic performance assessment of aging RC bridges considering multi-failure modes of bridge columns

JG Xu, ZK Cai, DC Feng - Engineering Structures, 2021 - Elsevier
… of aging RC bridges in a life-cycle context considering failure mode shift of the bridge columns.
A … columns are developed and validated with experimental tests results. A two-span RC …