Masonry arch bridges are one of the oldest civil engineering heritage preserved until today. Besides having great historical and engineering value, most are still functional and come to be approximately 60% of the total ...

L’Avinguda Meridiana de Barcelona (Espanya) va ser un dels 5 grans eixos de comunicació projectats per l’enginyer i urbanista Ildefons Cerdà en la seva proposta de reforma i eixample de la ciutat de Barcelona. Tanmateix, ...

In 2011, a huge tsunami stroke the north-eastern Japanese coast and caused numerous devastations, especially on public infrastructures such as highways, railways, bridges, etc. As bridges are essential for the recovery and ...

The papers shows the main works developed in Spain for the construction of a Bridge Management System (BMS) to manage the vehicle permits over the bridges of the socalled Strategic Spanish Highway Network, i.e., the most ...

El objetivo del proyecto es obtener un modelo del puente del Millenium, en Londres, que reproduzca fielmente el comportamiento dinámico de la estructura. Para alcanzar este propósito, se detallan las partes que conforman ...

During the last strong earthquakes, the impact between closely adjacent structures was reported as one of the major causes of collapse in buildings and bridges. This impact is also called seismic pounding and is due to the ...