Document Type
Article
Rights
Available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike 4.0 International Licence
Disciplines
Civil engineering, Municipal and structural engineering
Abstract
Accurate estimates of characteristic traffic load effects are essential in order to optimize bridge safety assessment. Permit trucks dominate the extreme upper tail of the truck loading distribution and as a result need careful examination. This paper proposes rules for filtering these trucks from Weigh-In-Motion data for both the US and Europe. The importance of these trucks in critical bridge loading events is then examined for both regions. A Monte Carlo traffic simulation model is developed which focuses on the accurate simulation of permit trucks.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1680/bren.14.00031
Recommended Citation
Enright, B., O'Brien, E. J. & Leahy, C. (2015), Identifying and Modelling Permit Trucks For Bridge Loading', Proceedings of the ICE - Bridge Engineering, doi:10.1680/bren.14.00031
Publication Details
Proceedings of the ICE - Bridge Engineering
Available here.