One promising technique for the seismic design of highway bridges with steel superstructures is to dissipate energy through the inelastic deformation of the end cross frames. These so-called ductile ...

Download a PDF of Seismic Performance of Steel Girder Bridge Superstructures with Conventional Cross Frames MCEER: Earthquake Engineering to Extreme Events University at Buffalo 212 Ketter Hall ...

Abstract: The end frames of steel plate girder bridges are critical elements in the transverse seismic load path of the superstructure. It has been suggested that if these cross frames were to yield ...