TY - BOOK AU - Mohamed Osama Ibrahim Elgohary AU - Ahmed Hassan Amer , TI - Live load distribution for curved steel trapezoidal box- girder bridges / PY - 2013/// CY - Cairo : PB - Mohamed Osama Ibrahim Elgohary , KW - Curved steel bridges KW - Live load distribution KW - Trapezoisal box- girder N1 - Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Engineering - Department of Civil Engineering; Issued also as CD N2 - Live load distribution factor is a key factor for designing and analyzing curved steel box- girder bridges . A 3-D finite element model is carried out for the analysis of the curved steel trapezoidal bridges , The parameters considered in the study were radius of curvature, girder spacing span length, slab thickness, girder longitudinal stiffness, girder torsional inertia, number of girders, and cross frame spacing ER -