Seismic pounding between bridge segments: a state-of-the-art review

M Miari, KK Choong, R Jankowski - Archives of Computational Methods in …, 2021 - Springer
Earthquake-induced structural pounding in bridge structures has been observed in several
previous seismic events. Collisions occur at the expansion joints provided between adjacent …

Effect of a V‐shaped canyon on the seismic response of a bridge under oblique incident SH waves

N Zhang, L Wang, Y Zhang, H Lu, D Dai… - Earthquake …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
To elucidate the effect of canyon topography on dynamic response of a bridge, an analytical
model for a simply supported bridge crossing a symmetric or non‐symmetric V‐shaped …

Devices for protecting bridge superstructure from pounding and unseating damages: an overview

B Shrestha, H Hao, K Bi - Structure and Infrastructure Engineering, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Previous earthquakes have highlighted the seismic vulnerability of bridges due to excessive
movements at expansion joints. This movement could lead to the catastrophic unseating …

Pounding damage to buildings and bridges in the 22 February 2011 Christchurch earthquake

N Chouw, H Hao - International Journal of Protective …, 2012 - journals.sagepub.com
This paper addresses the damage to buildings and bridges resulting from relative
movements between adjacent structures observed by the authors from building inspections …

Seismic responses of adjacent bridge structures coupled by tuned inerter damper

J Song, K Bi, K Xu, Q Han, X Du - Engineering Structures, 2021 - Elsevier
This paper proposes using a tuned inerter damper (TID) system to mitigate the potential
pounding and unseating damages between the adjacent bridge structures under severe …

Local site effects on a high-pier railway bridge under tridirectional spatial excitations: Nonstationary stochastic analysis

HY Jia, DY Zhang, SX Zheng, WC **e… - Soil Dynamics and …, 2013 - Elsevier
This paper presents a theoretical nonstationary stochastic analysis scheme using pseudo-
excitation method (PEM) for seismic analysis of long-span structures under tridirectional …

Influence of ground motion spatial variation, site condition and SSI on the required separation distances of bridge structures to avoid seismic pounding

K Bi, H Hao, N Chouw - Earthquake Engineering & Structural …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
It is commonly understood that earthquake ground excitations at multiple supports of large
dimensional structures are not the same. These ground motion spatial variations may …

Influence of spatially varying ground motions on the seismic responses of bridge structures with KDampers

S Jiang, K Bi, R Ma, Q Han, X Du - Engineering Structures, 2023 - Elsevier
KDamper has been applied to control the seismic responses of bridge structures very
recently. However, previous studies considered its performance under uniform ground …

Assessment on required separation length between adjacent bridge segments to avoid pounding

HY Jia, XL Lan, SX Zheng, LP Li, CQ Liu - Soil Dynamics and Earthquake …, 2019 - Elsevier
This paper presents a probability-based method, based on the design required separation
length, to evaluate the likelihood beyond the required separation length of pounding of …

Probabilistic seismic assessment of RC box-girder highway bridges with unequal-height piers subjected to earthquake-induced pounding

H Rezaei, SA Moayyedi, R Jankowski - Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering, 2020 - Springer
This paper uses the probabilistic seismic assessment to study the effects of pounding and
irregularity on the seismic behavior of typical concrete box-girder bridges with four levels of …