Major vehicle or barge collisions with bridge piers are becoming increasingly commonplace,
leading to increased risk to critical transportation infrastructure. Consequently, the reliability …

Vehicle collisions with bridge piers can result in significant damage to the support pier and
potentially lead to catastrophic failure of the whole structure. The Nation's aging …

Vehicle collisions with bridge piers are one of the leading causes of bridge failures
throughout the United States. The damage in a bridge pier caused by a vehicle collision can …

Although the probability of vehicle collision with bridge piers is relatively low, it may cause
the pier to fracture and even the entire bridge to collapse, resulting in casualties and huge …

Vehicle collisions with bridge piers result in a complex set of actions and reactions between
the structural system and the vehicle. The design of these piers is very important as it can …

Impact collisions of vehicles with reinforced concrete (RC) bridge piers are an increasingly
common event. The collision creates a dynamic effect on the concrete pier not generally …

This paper introduces a novel damage ratio index (DRI) that can be used to define the
expected damage due to impact scenarios of vehicles striking bridge piers. The DRI is …

Recently, vehicle collisions with bridge piers have occurred frequently, which have attracted
the attention of researchers. However, as one of the most important research methods …

Given their close proximity to traffic and improper employment of protective systems, bridges
and bridge piers are vulnerable to multi-hazard events triggered by vehicle collisions …

Impact accidents between bridges and vehicles have great randomness, and the threat of
various vehicles to bridge structures is also different. In this case, the vehicle impact shall be …