Robustness Assessment of a Steel Truss Bridge

Robustness of steel truss bridges: Laboratory testing of a full-scale 21-metre bridge span

“…Jiang et al [20]) or the analysis of real cases (e.g. Starossek [5], Bontempi [7], Deng et al [8]), including truss bridges [21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29] with an unique experimental test [29]. In truss bridges, from a theoretical viewpoint [21,23,27], it has been shown that a failure in any element can trigger partial or total bridge collapse, so that there is a need for further experimental studies to analyse the real behaviour of these bridges to serve as the basis of future theoretical and numerical developments.…”