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		<title><![CDATA[The Influence of Construction Technology on the Mechanics of Masonry Railway Bridges]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=112848]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[In this paper, with reference to real, in-service bridges, it has been shown that information obtained from visual inspection may suggest a structure which is different from the internal effective one. The historical sources highlight that these cases are much more common than usually believed. Furthermore, it has been shown...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2002 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The Helix Bridge]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=112686]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[The Helix Bridge at the Paddington Basin development adjacent to Paddington Station is a retractable, composite glass and steel pedestrian bridge. It has a helical frame which rotates during deployment to give the appearance of it corkscrewing across the canal. AK Heavy Engineering used LUSAS to ensure that the proposed...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Seismic Resistant Viaduct Design for the Taiwan High Speed Rail Project]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=112687]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[FaberMaunsell, a leading consulting firm for seismic design work, used LUSAS Bridge to assist in the design of seismic resistant viaduct structures and station guide ways for Contract C270 on the Taiwan High Speed Rail Project. Response spectrum analysis with LUSAS determined forces in columns. The design ground acceleration in...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Automated Design of Railway Culverts]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=112690]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Italian LUSAS distributor Alhambra srl worked in conjunction with the engineering company Ingegneri Associati srl to automate the modeling and design/checking of railway culvert structures in accordance with Italian bridge loading and reinforced concrete codes of practice. Automating the analysis of culvert structures using the LUSAS scripting facilities produces significant...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Watergate Bridge]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=112692]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[The new Watergate Bridge across the River Boyne in Trim, County Meath, in the Republic of Ireland, will replace an existing composite multi-span structure that has had a weight restriction of 5 Tonnes since 1992 and is in a bad state of repair. The designers, Roughan & O'Donovan, used LUSAS...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Bridge Assessment of a Composite Deck System]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=112694]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Tony Gee and Partners used LUSAS Bridge for the analytical study of load and stress distribution of Neasden Lane Overbridge in London. The bridge comprises two historically distinct deck systems that are proposed to be made composite by installing a load sharing mechanism. Re-assessment of the bridge superstructure to UK...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Wacker Drive Reconstruction - Phase 2 Design]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=112695]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Wacker Drive is a major two-level viaduct bordering the north and west sides of Chicago's downtown "Loop." The lower level of Wacker Drive provides access for service vehicles to 57 high-rise buildings. This design concept requires an increased effort on the designer's part in order to accommodate the post-tensioning tendons...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[New Mississippi River Bridge]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=112696]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[When built, the New Mississippi River Bridge will be a record-breaking, cable-stayed structure linking the States of Illinois and Missouri in the USA, helping to relieve traffic on other bridges across the river. The designer, Modjeski and Masters, was chosen by the Illinois and Missouri Departments of Transportation to perform...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Seismic Assessment of the Mustafa Inan Viaduct, Turkey]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=112697]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[The Mustafa Inan viaduct consists of two carriageways - both of 10 equally spaced, 40m long, cell box girders resting on elastomeric bearings, where the tallest piers ever built, at 90m in height. Apart from damage to the seismic buffers located at the second longest pier in the central span...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Assessment of the Forsmo Bridge]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=112699]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Built in 1912, the Forsmo Bridge is a 263m long, 50m high riveted steel-truss-arch railway bridge which crosses the Aangermann River in Northern Sweden between Luleaa and Borlange As part of the Swedish National Rail Administration's STAX 25 programme the bridge was to be assessed and potentially upgraded for freight...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Falkirk Wheel]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=112700]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[LUSAS Bridge analysis software was used as the primary analysis tool by Tony Gee and Partners TGP for preliminary and subsequent detailed design work on the Falkirk Wheel. The Wheel as it is known is a unique lifting bridge designed to reconnect the Forth & Clyde and Union canals between...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Widening and Strengthening of Kingston Bridge]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=112701]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Detailed inspections of Kingston Bridge in Kingston upon Thames, Surrey, revealed numerous defects in the 1914 structure and load assessments resulted in vehicles of over 38 tones being prohibited from crossing the bridge. Designers Symonds Group Ltd used LUSAS Bridge to model the spans of the widened structure for its...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Detailed Dynamic Analysis of Newark Dyke Rail Bridge]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=112702]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Newark Dyke Bridge is a 77m long, 11.25m wide, steel bowstring arch Railway Bridge designed for the next generation of 225 kph trains and, as such, is the first of its kind in Britain. LUSAS Bridge analysis software was used by Cass Hayward & Partners to carry out detailed dynamic...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Design of the Novi Sad Friendship Bridge]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=112703]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Novi Sad Friendship Bridge is an asymmetric cable stayed swing footbridge which spans the River Wensum in Norwich to provide access to a new commercial development and helps regenerate a historic but run-down part of the city. Buro Happold Consulting Engineers Ltd in association with architects, Yee Associates, used LUSAS...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Static and Dynamic Analysis of the Construction Phases of Storebaelt East Suspension Bridge]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=112704]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[The 6.8km long Storebaelt East Bridge spans between the Sprogo and Zealand islands in Denmark and includes a 2.7km long major suspension bridge with a 1624m main span and 2 side spans of 550m. DE MIRANDA Associati DMA, based in Milan, Italy, used LUSAS Bridge analysis software to provide advice...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Namdo Bridge]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=112706]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[LUSAS Bridge has been used by Sambo Engineering Co Ltd to investigate localized stress distribution in a steel arch rib and girder connection for the Namdo Bridge in Whagae-Myun, Junlanam-Do, and South Korea. Namdo Bridge is a 160m span, 32m high Nielsen arch bridge that carries a 2 lane highway...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Gateshead Millennium Bridge]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=112708]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Gateshead Millennium Bridge is a striking arched opening bridge designed by Gifford and Partners with Wilkinson Eyre. Made of steel, and designed with the aid of LUSAS Bridge analysis software, the bridge stands 45m high and spans 105m across the River Tyne to provide a link between the newly revived...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Dynamic Analysis of the Hungerford Bridge Millennium Project]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=112709]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[The two multi-span main footbridges are 320m long and 4.7m wide. They comprise pre-stressed concrete edge beams connected by a structural slab and down stand ribs. The decks are suspended using arrays of cable stay rods from inclined steel pylons. Steel cable backstays hold the 25m high pylons at the...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Pier Design on the Plashet School Footbridge]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=112710]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[A new 67m long footbridge links the two sides of Plashet School across Plashet Grove in Newham, London. Designed by structural engineers Techniker with architects Birds Portchmouth Russum for Newham Borough Council it is supported on sculptural steel piers that emerge as distorted fins from the ground and clamp the...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Millennium Bridge]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=112711]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Whitby Bird and Partners, based in London, is a multi-disciplinary consulting engineering firm at the leading edge of technology and innovation. Their competition-winning design for the York Millennium Bridge across the River Ouse was inspired by the spokes of a bicycle wheel and consists of an inclined arch with radially...]]></description>
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