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Composite Repair of Full-Scale Timber Bridge Chord Members through the Process of Shear Spiking (Dec 2005, MPC-05-173)
Investigations into the effects of the addition of vertically-oriented shear spikes with fiberglass reinforced polymer rods have shown that the shear spikes increased the effective stiffness of the stringers of a full-scale timber bridge chord specimen. This was previously found to be true on dimension...
Composite Repair of Timber Structures (Jun 2000, MPC-00-112)
The present research suggests a new approach to the use of composite materials technology for repair of timber structural members. Due to the small aspect ratio of the typical railroad bridge span timbers, stiffness degradation can be related to decrease in the beam's shear performance. To rejuvenate...