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A study on the fragility of highway bridges in Taiwan

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Abstract

This paper describes procedures of bridge fragility analysis for the highway bridges on the south-north freeway in Taiwan, and studies the evaluation of parameters used in bridge seismic damage assessment. First, the types of the bridge structures in Taiwan south-north freeway are reviewed and a classification based on the available data is proposed. Second, the description of failure mechanisms and criteria in different damage states adopted in this research are summarized. Third, the theoretical methodology of the fragility analysis for the proposed bridge classes and examples for some typical bridge structures are presented. Parameters for describing the fragility functions for each class are also generated and shown in the paper.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationWind and Earthquake Engineering - Proceedings of the 10th East Asia-Pacific Conference on Structural Engineering and Construction, EASEC 2010
Pages97-102
Number of pages6
StatePublished - 2006
Event10th East Asia-Pacific Conference on Structural Engineering and Construction, EASEC 2010 - Bangkok, Thailand
Duration: 3 Aug 20065 Aug 2006

Publication series

NameWind and Earthquake Engineering - Proceedings of the 10th East Asia-Pacific Conference on Structural Engineering and Construction, EASEC 2010
Volume3

Conference

Conference10th East Asia-Pacific Conference on Structural Engineering and Construction, EASEC 2010
Country/TerritoryThailand
CityBangkok
Period3/08/065/08/06

Keywords

  • Capacity curve
  • Earthquake loss estimation
  • Fragility curve
  • Highway bridge
  • Seismic assessment
  • Taiwan

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