Safety and dynamic factors for determining the military load capacity of road bridges
Abstract
For efficient military transport, the load capacity of bridges must be classified. This canbe done in several ways. A quick and sufficiently accurate method of classification isto compare loads (moments). The procedure requires finalising the values of the safetyand dynamic factors for different concurrency cases. This document reviews theconditions and circumstances under which these factors can be determined.
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