Publications by Scott Walbridge

A WIM-Based Assessment of Multiple Vehicle Presence Effects on Fatigue Damage of Highway Bridges

Alain Nussbaumer, Scott Walbridge, Matthew James Sjaarda

The fatigue provisions for bridge design in North America and Europe are highly simplified for the sake of practical implementation, in comparison with the state of the art in understanding of the true fatigue behavior. Historically, one significant simpli ...

2024

Reliability analysis of welded stud shear connectors on simply-supported bridge girders

Scott Walbridge, Matthew James Sjaarda

This paper examines the reliability of welded stud shear connectors for steel-concrete composite bridge girders. A finite element model of a simply-supported bridge was created featuring link connector elements representing the shear studs between beam and ...

CANADIAN SCIENCE PUBLISHING2021

Performance of Embedded Bolt Shear Connectors

Scott Walbridge, Matthew James Sjaarda

A laboratory research program carried out at the University of Waterloo featured the testing of three large-scale steel-concrete composite beam specimens with embedded bolt shear connectors. A detailed assessment of the connector performance was made, faci ...

TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD2020

Performance of Pedestrian-Load Models through Experimental Studies on Lightweight Aluminum Bridges

Scott Walbridge, Ann Christine Sychterz

Aluminum structures provide a high strength-to-weight ratio, are corrosion resistant, and are esthetically pleasing. Hence, their use in bridge construction has recently begun to increase, especially for pedestrian bridges. Because of their relative light ...

2016

Simultaneous Vehicle Crossing Effects on Fatigue Damage Equivalence Factors for North American Roadway Bridges

Alain Nussbaumer, Scott Walbridge, Vincent Fischer, Nariman Maddah

In many design codes for roadway bridges, fatigue design involves passing a load model over an influence line for a critical location on the bridge and then determining the resulting nominal stress range. For fatigue design in the finite-life domain, this ...

American Society of Civil Engineers2013

A probabilistic assessment of the effect of post-weld treatment on the fatigue performance of tubular truss bridges

Alain Nussbaumer, Scott Walbridge

In the design of tubular truss bridges, engineers have found the fatigue performance of the joints to be a critical aspect. In looking for ways to improve this performance, the use of residual stress-based post-weld treatments has been suggested. Although ...

Elsevier2008

Probabilistic fatigue analysis of shop and field treated tubular truss bridges

Alain Nussbaumer, Scott Walbridge

This article examines the extent to which post-weld treatment by needle peening can improve the fatigue performance of tubular truss bridges. To do this, the various potential crack sites on several variants of a typical bridge are analyzed using a probabi ...

Elsevier2008

A probabilistic model for determining the effect of post-weld treatment on the fatigue performance of tubular bridge joints

Alain Nussbaumer, Scott Walbridge

Herein, a probabilistic model for predicting the effect of post-weld treatment on the fatigue performance of the welded joints in tubular truss bridges is described. Specifically, a probabilistic LEFM-based model is first developed for the fatigue analysis ...

2007

Probabilistic fatigue analysis of a post-weld treated tubular bridge

Alain Nussbaumer, Scott Walbridge

In this paper, several probabilistic models for evaluating the fatigue performance of post-weld treated tubular bridge structures are briefly described. The application of the models is then demonstrated on a full-scale example bridge. Under realistic traf ...

2006

A probabilistic study of fatigue in post-weld treated tubular bridge structures

Scott Walbridge

In the design of tubular bridges, engineers have found the fatigue performance of the joints to be a critical aspect that may have a significant impact on the economic viability of these structures. In looking for ways of improving this performance, the us ...

EPFL2005

Gusset plate connections under monotonic and cyclic loading

Scott Walbridge

2005