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This program introduces a UHPC-connected, novel prefabricated bridge pier system and explains how its structural configuration influences seismic performance. You’ll explore the pier’s key components, connection detailing, load-transfer mechanisms, and the design rationale behind using UHPC to improve constructability, durability, and resilience. Through clear technical explanations and practical examples, the program covers expected failure modes, stiffness/strength and energy-dissipation behavior, and performance under earthquake-type loading. Participants will leave with a structured understanding of how to evaluate this prefabricated pier concept, what to look for in connection design, and how to interpret seismic performance outcomes for research and engineering applications.
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