Our new paper published in the ASCE Journal of Structural Engineering is on the fragility of bridge elastomeric bearings, on the basis of a novel damage index, and the influence of steel reinforcement plates on their performance.
The paper is co-authored with Dr Kostas Kalfas from Southern Methodist University and Prof Dimitris Konstantinidis, Berkeley University
Read the paper here: https://ascelibrary.org/doi/10.1061/%28ASCE%29ST.1943-541X.0002710
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