Papers “Field and Numerical Evaluations of Static and Dynamic Live Load Response in Skewed Steel I-Girder Bridges with Stub and Integral Abutments” and “Evaluating Support Representation and Modeling Strategy for Skewed Steel I-Girder Integral Abutment Bridges during Deck Placement” have appeared in the Journal of Bridge Engineering.

The “Field and Numerical Evaluation” paper documents a portion of project ICT R27-194 (“Evaluation of Spatial and Temporal Load Distribution in Steel Bridge Superstructures”). This paper reports static and dynamic live load response of two skewed steel I-girder bridges with different abutment conditions under field tests and associated numerical simulations.

The “Evaluating Support Representation” paper documents research supported by UTRGV Seed Research Grant. This paper evaluates standard simplified support representations in various levels of analysis for skewed steel I-girder IABs with fixed bearings during deck placement and proposes modeling improvements by comparing numerical simulation results with those from field-validated three-dimensional (3D) models. This research was led by Bikesh Sedhain, who is an upcoming M.S. graduate of Civil Engineering (UTRGV). Congratulations to Bikesh for his achievement for his graduate research!