
Research and Applications in Structural Engineering, Mechanics and Computation – Zingoni (Ed.)
© 2013 Taylor & Francis Group, London, ISBN 978-1-138-00061-2
Fatigue life assessment of existing motorway bridge
L. D’Angelo & A. Nussbaumer
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, ENAC-ICOM, Switzerland
M.A. Fenart & A.-G. Dumont
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, ENAC-LAVOC, Switzerland
ABSTRACT: The aim of this paper is to provide a fatigue-life assessment of an existing composite steel-
concrete bridge within Switzerland. Stress response influence lines at fatigue critical location are characterized
with a refined three-dimensional (3-D) finite ...