Emmanuel Barragán González

Reliability-based calibration of fatigue load factors for steel bridges under traffic growth uncertainty.

A reliability-based calibration of the fatigue load factor was performed as a case study for a Mexican steel bridge (Puente Calapa). Empirical Mexican axle-weight distributions gave stresses, processed by rainflow counting, Palmgren-Miner damage accumulation, and Monte Carlo evaluation of a probabilistic limit state. F...