Seismic Performance of Reinforced Concrete Bridges Allowed to Uplift during Multi-Directional Excitation




ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Financial support for this research project was provided by the California State Department of Transportation under Contract No. 59A0433. The title of the overall project, which also involved researchers from the University of California, Davis, was "Design Guidelines for Foundation Rocking of Bridge Piers (STAP13)." The findings, observations, and conclusions contained herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent those of the sponsors. The thoughtful advice and encouragement provided by the Craig Whitten and Fadel Alameddine of Caltrans in planning and carrying out this work is greatly appreciated.


We would like to thank the laboratory staff at the Earthquake Engineering Research Center where much of this research work was performed: Wesley Neighbour, Don Clyde, David Maclam, and Shakhzod Takhirov. In particular, Charles James of the PEER Library was helpful in preparing this work. Graduate students at U.C. Berkeley whose help was invaluable include Kevin Mackie, Michael Scott, Gabriel Hurtado, Hyungil Jeong, Janise Rodgers, and Patxi Uriz. We also thank Dr. Frank McKenna of PEER for his assistance. Special thanks are also due to Professors Bozidar Stojadinovic and Douglas Dreger for their support and review of this work. The active collaboration of Professors Bruce Kutter and Boris Jeremic, their students, and the laboratory staff from University of California, Davis, was also instrumental in developing and carrying out the research described herein.


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