This work present the main types and features of rigid and flexible pavements built over Brazilian bridges and viaducts as well as stresses and strains developed on them according to Legal Brazilian Load. In this paper, it is shown a special report about binding layers between rigid pavement and its special foundation . It is also discussed on Brazilian bridges, why preference for flexible pave…
Being among the most flexible of civil engineering structures, long span bridges deform both dynamically and quasi-statically under a range of operational conditions including wind, traffic and thermal loads, in varying patterns, with different timescales and at different amplitudes. While external loads and internal forces can only rarely be measured, there are well developed and emerging …
In this study, the acquisition of rule-type knowledge from field inspection data on highway bridges is enhanced by introducing an improvement to a traditional data mining technique, i.e. applying the rough set theory to the traditional decision table reduction method. The new rough set theory approach helps in cases of exceptional and contradictory data, which in the traditional decision tab…