A paper on steel fixed bearings has been published in the Journal of Bridge Engineering Special Issue on Recent Advances in Seismic Design, Analysis, and Protection of Highway Bridges:
- Steelman, J.S., Filipov, E.T., Fahnestock, L.A., Revell, J.R., LaFave, J.M., Hajjar, J.F. and Foutch, D.A. “Experimental Behavior of Steel Fixed Bearings and Implications for Seismic Bridge Response,” Journal of Bridge Engineering, ASCE, 19 (8) 2014. dx.doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)BE.1943-5592.0000540
The work described in this paper is part of the project Calibration and Refinement of Illinois’ Earthquake Resisting System Bridge Design Methodology, which is sponsored by the Illinois Center for Transportation.