Proceedings of the Fourth PRC-US Workshop on Seismic Analysis and Design of Special Bridges: Advancing Bridge Technologies in Research, Design, Construction and Preservation

Keywords: Seismic performance.  Seismic designs.  Highway infrastructure.  Bridges.  Construction.  Preservation.  Hazard mitigation.  Performance-based earthquake engineering (PBEE).  Performance-based seismic design.  Ground motion.  Loss estimation.  Assessments.  Retrofitting.  Extreme events.  Inspections.  Structural damage.

Abstract: The fourth workshop in the PRC-US Workshop on Seismic Analysis and Design of Special Bridges, was held June 19-21, 2006 in Chongqing, China, the “City of Bridges.” The workshop was designed to exchange state-of-the-art information on highway bridge technologies and to plan and develop future cooperative research projects between the United States and the People’s Republic of China. A total of 39 participants, 16 from the U.S. and 23 from China, attended this workshop. These proceedings contain 32 papers covering a wide range of research fields.