| Tsunami has become an essential issue for disaster prevention of highway in Japan. A research project for studying tsunami effect acted on bridge structure and capacity of bridge system for resisting tsunami has been initiated in Center for Advanced Engineering Structural Assessment and Research (CAESAR), Public Works Research Institute (PWRI). This research project includes flume tests on bridge model for investigating tsunami effect acted on bridge structure, loading tests on model of entire bridge system and analytical studies on actual bridges for investigating capacity of bridge system for resisting tsunami. This paper introduces a brief report on the research results up to now. |
