An Overview of Current State of the Practice for Seismic Design Retrofit of Bridges

摘要

There have been many recent changes in the field of earthquake engineering for highway bridges as a result of lessons learned from past events, funded research, and the development of a new performance driven design philosophy based on consensus of best practice in the U.S. and abroad. This paper provides a brief summary of the current state of the practice for bridge design and retrofit with particular attention given to the applied research that MCEER's team has conducted for Federal Highway Administration.