Power systems are planned such that they have
adequate generation capacity to meet the load, according to a defined reliability target. The increase in the penetration of wind generation in recent years has led to a ...
The concept of capacity credit is widely used to quantify the contribution of renewable
technologies to securing demand. This may be quantified in a number of ways; this paper
recommends the use of Effective Load ...
It is well acknowledged that long-span road bridges (about 50 m long and more) are
governed by congestion traffic rather than free-flow conditions. A conventional model
for the design of new long-span bridges is to place ...
An examination of weigh-in-motion (WIM) data collected recently at sites in five European
countries has shown that vehicles with weights well in excess of the normal legal limits are
found on a daily basis. These vehicles ...
First investigations on the dynamic response of bridges due to moving loads were motivated by the collapse of the Chester railway bridge in the UK in the middle of the 19th century. This failure made evident the need to ...
This paper summarises the developments in the dynamic response of bridges to traffic loading
based on a large amount of simulations and field tests carried out within the 6th EU framework ARCHES
(2006-2009). When assessing ...
Offshore piles are subjected to complex loading regimes, which include both rapidly
applied static and cyclic loads. This note describes an experimental investigation
conducted in order to assess the factors influencing ...
WIM has developed greatly in the last ten years and confidence in the accuracy of recorded data has
increased significantly. Traffic data recently obtained from a number of representative European sites
are used to ...
This report gives results of some new studies performed to validate the European road traffic load model proposed by the Eurocode EC1. Weight in motion has developed greatly in the last ten years and confidence in the ...
To assess the safety of an existing bridge, the loads to which it may be subject in its
lifetime are required. Statistical analysis is used to extrapolate a sample of load effect values from the simulation period to the ...