The advanced analysis can predict more accurately possible failure modes of a structure, exhibit a more uniform level of safety, and provide a better long-term serviceability and maintainability.
As the consequences of exceeding the allowed stresses are relatively small, there has been a lively debate on whether compression perpendicular to grain should be treated as an ultimate or better as a serviceability limit state.
This specification is aimed for better reliability, availability and serviceability.
The experimental results showed that better crack resistance, high serviceability and ultimate loads, and good energy absorption could be achieved by using the proposed beams which verifies the validity of using the proposed system.
Cost-effectiveness evaluations for soil retaining structures require better knowledge of the integrity and serviceability of these structures subjected to foundation settlements.
By conducting studies on a comprehensive set of possible scenarios, it is anticipated that better understanding of extreme events of long-span bridges from the perspectives of strength and serviceability design will be achieved, which may contribute to the future design specification about long-span bridges.
Also, this behavior indicated that the overall serviceability of the PSC curved girders can be guaranteed in the service state.
This is shown to perform better than equivalent, more conventional composite beams at the ultimate condition, but is slightly less efficient when considering some serviceability aspects.
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