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      <title>STRENGTH OF STEEL CULVERT SHEETS BEARING AGAINST COMPACTED SAND BACKFILL</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[AN INVESTIGATION WAS MADE OF THE ULTIMATE LOAD OF CURVED STEEL SHEETS BEARING AGAINST DENSE SAND BACKFILL. THE LOADING TESTS WERE CARRIED OUT AT A SCALE OF ONE-EIGHT FULL SIZE BY APPLYING AN AXIAL LOAD AT THE END OF PLAIN AND CORRUGATED SHEETS OF VARIOUS THICKNESSES AND RADII OF CURVATURE. DURING THE TESTS MEASUREMENTS WERE MADE OF THE STRAINS, SOIL PRESSURES AND DEFLECTIONS OF THE SHEETS. THE STRESS-DEFORMATION AND STRENGTH CHARACTERISTICS OF THE SAND WERE DETERMINED BY TRIAXIAL COMPRESSION TESTS FROM WHICH REPRESENTATIVE VALUES OF THE COEFFICIENT OF SOIL REACTION /SUBGRADE MODULUS/ WERE CALCULATED. THESE VALUES WERE FOUND TO BE OF THE SAME ORDER AS THE AVERAGE COEFFICIENTS DEDUCED FROM THE LOADING TESTS ON THE SHEETS. THE ANALYSIS SHOWS THAT FOR SMALL VALUES OF THE COEFFICIENT OF SOIL REACTION OR MODULUS OF DEFORMATION OF THE SOIL, AND FOR SMALL VALUES OF THE FLEXURAL RIGIDITY OF THE PLATES, THE SHEETS WOULD FAIL BY BUCKLING, BUT FOR LARGER VALUES OF THESE PARAMETERS THE SHEETS WOULD FAIL BY YIELDING OF THE SECTION. AN ANALYSIS IS ALSO MADE OF THE STRENGTH OF FLEXIBLE CULVERTS UNDER FILLS, FOR WHICH SIMPLE EQUATIONS AND DESIGN CHARTS ARE PRESENTED.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 07 Oct 1994 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>A STATEWIDE DEFLECTION STUDY OF CONTINUOUSLY REINFORCED CONCRETE PAVEMENT IN TEXAS</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[A PERFORMANCE STUDY OF CONTINUOUSLY REINFORCED CONCRETE PAVEMENT WAS CONDUCTED IN TERMS OF LOAD-DEFLECTION STUDIES. THE FOLLOWING FACTORS AFFECTING PAVEMENT PERFORMANCE WERE CONSIDERED' /1/ SUBGRADE SUPPORT, /2/ SUBBASE TYPE, /3/ CONCRETE MODULUS OF ELASTICITY, /4/ CONCRETE MODULUS OF RUPTURE, /5/ PAVEMENT THICKNESS, /6/ SEASON OF THE YEAR, AND /7/ SOIL MOISTURE CONDITION. THE EFFECT OF EACH OF THE FACTORS ON DEFLECTION AND STRESS OR CURVATURE WAS STUDIED. THE VARIABLES THAT SIGNIFICANTLY AFFECT DEFLECTION AND RADIUS OF CURVATURE ARE CORRELATED INTO MODEL EQUATIONS. THE CONSTANTS IN THE EQUATIONS WERE DETERMINED FROM THE DATA USING MULTIPLE REGRESSION TECHNIQUES. SOME INITIAL ASSUMPTIONS MADE IN THE DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT OF CONTINUOUSLY REINFORCED CONCRETE PAVEMENT FOR TEXAS CONDITIONS WERE VALIDATED. /AUTHOR/]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 11 Aug 1994 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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