PREDICTION OF COLLAPSE LOADING FOR COMPOSITE HIGHWAY BRIDGES.

Keywords: CANADIAN FORCES CONSTRUCT ENG UNIT, FLINT AND NEILL, PREDICTION, COMPOSITE, THEORY, BEHAVIOUR, SPANS, SKEW, DECKS, SOLUTIONS, SMALL, STIFFENED, RELAXATION, SOLUTIONS, EQUATIONS, ANALYSIS, MODELS, EVALUATION, LIMITS, COLLAPSE, HIGHWAYS, EXPERIMENTS, SINGLE SPAN, SIMPLE, STEEL, SLABS, THIN, DEFLECTION, THEORY, LOADS, FINITE DIFFERENCE, UPPER BOUNDS, TESTS, IDEALISATION, STIFFNESS, BRIDGES, INVESTIGATIONS, SINGLE, SUPPORTS, GIRDERS, LOWER BOUNDS, PLATES, ELASTIC, PLASTIC, DYNAMICS, INCREMENTATION, EQUILIBRIUM, YIELD LINE, SCALE, FORMULATION