November 2013 (34.69517 Degrees, 135.19599 Degrees) Port-Liner Elevated Railway |
The bridges have been retrofitted with steel column casings and viscous fluid dampers, which will hopefully prevent severe damage during the next earthquake. However, the use of 'C' Bents and short radius curves will result in large superstructure displacements and large torsional and flexural moments in the supports.
Hyogo Prefecture, Japan Bridges: Port-Liner Elevated Railway in Downtown Kobe by Mark Yashinsky is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.
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