Stress and deformation of a bridge under a transverse lateral force. (IMAGE)

Tokyo Metropolitan University

Stress and deformation of a bridge under a transverse lateral force.

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Local stress in the bridge structure just as lateral displacements get drastically large (deformations have been magnified five times).

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Tokyo Metropolitan University

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