Buckling Restrained Braces application to provide more resilient bridges have been subjected to cyclic displacement histories representative of yearly thermal demands and of earthquake excitations.

Keywords: Seismic performance. Bidirectional-resistant ductile end diaphragms. Unbonded braces. Retrofitting. Steel bridges. Skewed bridges. Hysteretic models ...

The past 60 years have not seen any fundamental change to the design of bridge decks for suspensions bridges - best known in Denmark from the Great Belt Link. To accommodate the request for ever ...