Title: Nonlinear Temperature Distributions in Bridges at Different Locations in the United States
Date: July-August, 1989
Volume: 34
Issue: 4
Page number: 80-103
Author(s): Izak C. Potgieter, William L. Gamble
https://doi.org/10.15554/pcij.07011989.80.103

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Abstract

As in the case of earthquake loadings or wind loadings which vary significantly throughout the continental United States, a large variation in  thermal loadings can be expected. Structures in some parts of the country are more likely to experience large thermal loadings due to specific meteorological conditions. It is not necessary to take the severe conditions experienced in one part of the country into consideration in bridge design for another part of the country where totally different environmental conditions may exist.