SP-164
The Fourth World Congress on Joint Sealants and Bearing Systems for Concrete Structures
1996, 453 pp.
$51.50

The Fourth World Congress on Joint Sealants and Bearing Systems in Concrete Structures will enhance the general understanding of these systems and introduce entirely new concepts developed to cater to the latest seismic code requirements. This conference was held in Sacramento, California on September 29 through October 3, 1996.

Contents:
*A HALF-CENTURY OF INVOLVEMENT WITH JOINTS

AND BEARING AND SOME LESSONS LEARNED,

by Stewart C Watson

*THE USE OF ELASTOMERIC SEALING DEVICES FOR

CAST-IRON SOIL PIPE USED IN DRAIN, WASTE, AND

VENT SYSTEMS IN CONCRETE STRUCTURES, by Cast

Iron Pipe Institute Technical Advisory Group (William H Le Van)

*FLAWED ASSUMPTIONS AND THE FAILURE OF BRIDGE

DECK JOINTS AND BEARINGS, by Martin P Burke, Jr

*PREDICTION OF THERMAL MOVEMENTS IN HIGHWAY

BRIDGES AND THEIR INFLUENCE ON THE DESIGN OF

JOINTS AND BEARINGS, by Enrique Mirambell and Jordi Costa

*FATIGUE DESIGN AND TESTING OF MODULAR BRIDGE

EXPANSION JOINTS, by Mark R Kaczinski, Robert J Dexter,

and Robert J Connor

*THEORETICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL STUDY ON BURIED

JOINT SYSTEMS, by P Giannattasio, L Alifano, M Crisino, B Festa

*THE EUROPEAN APPROACH TO THE SEISMIC ISOLATION

OF BRIDGES, by Renzo Medeot

*AN EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF FLAT AND TAPERED

ELASTOMERIC BRIDGE BEARINGS, by Joseph V Muscarella

and Joseph A Yura

*ISOLATION BEARING SPECIFICATION ISSUES, by

Ronald J Watson

*ANALYSIS OF ELASTOMERIC BEARINGS IN AN

INSTRUMENTED BRIDGE SYSTEM, by Douglas K Nims,

Kolluru Subramaniam, Azadeh Parvin, and A Emin Aktan

*PERFORMANCE OF BRIDGE DECK EXPANSION JOINTS

BY LARGE-SCALE ACCELERATED TESTING APPARATUS,

by Shiou-San Kuo and D Michael Waddell

*HIGH-LOAD FABRIC PAD BRIDGE BEARINGS, by

John A Van Lund

*DESIGN CONSIDERATIONS FOR SPHERICAL BRIDGE

BEARINGS UNDER HORIZONTAL LOADS, by T Ivan Campbell,

Mark F Green, Neal C Koppens, and Akhilesh C Agarwal

*EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF BRIDGE SEISMIC ISOLATION

SYSTEMS, by Michael C Constantinou and Panos Tsopelas

*SEISMIC MOVEMENT AT BRIDGE ABUTMENTS, by

C Stewart Gloyd

*COLUMN-PILE JOINTS MADE OF STEEL PIPES FILLED

WITH CONCRETE, by Hideaki Takano, Tadayoshi Ishibashi,

Norio Kamata, and Masanori Kinoshita

*NEW BEARINGS FOR WASHINGTON METRO, by J Valvezan,

D Gilstad, and F Farhangi

*TEMPERATURE AND STRAIN RATE EFFECTS ON THE

SEISMIC PERFORMANCE OF ELASTOMERIC AND LEAD-

RUBBER BEARINGS, by D K Kim, J B Mander, and S S Chen

*SEISMIC PERFORMANCE AND RETROFITTING OF STEEL

BEARINGS, by J B Mander, D K Kim, and S S Chen

*A SIMPLIFIED MODEL FOR THE ELASTIC DYNAMIC

BEHAVIOR OF BASE ISOLATION BUILDINGS, by Julio S Miranda

*A NEW GENERATION OF APJ DESIGN: THE COLD PLUG

JOINT, by Richard J Baker and Bruce W Adams

*IMPROVEMENTS IN EXPANSION JOINT SEALING

PERFORMANCE FOR PARKING STRUCTURE APPLICATIONS,

by David C Monroe and Gary A Busch

*ABSTRACTS OF THIRD WORLD CONGRESS

*SI (Metric) TABLES

*INDEX