
Research and Applications in Structural Engineering, Mechanics and Computation – Zingoni (Ed.)
© 2013 Taylor & Francis Group, London, ISBN 978-1-138-00061-2
Analysis of steel and steel-concrete bridge girders through
a higher order beam model
R.F. Vieira, F.B. Virtuoso & E.B.R. Pereira
Department of Civil Engineering, Architecture and Georesources, Instituto Superior Técnico,
Universidade Técnica de Lisboa
SUMMARY
The three-dimensional analysis of steel and compos-
ite steel-concrete bridges in practice engineering is
usual performed using shell finite element models.
Although these models allow to accurately consider
a broad range of structural phenomena: ...