TY - GEN A1 - Partov, Doncho A1 - Pasternak, Hartmut A1 - Petkov, Milen A1 - Nikolov, Radoslav A1 - Dimitrova, Antoaneta T1 - About the history of orthotropic bridge decks T2 - Annual of the University of Architecture, Civil Engineering and Geodesy, Sofia N2 - Тhe development of steel bridges after the WWII is characterized by new constructive forms like: steel roadway closed sections, new static systems considering the roadway as a plate rather than a beam grid, new computational methods covering rod statics and statics of continuum, and determining the internal forces of the roadway as internal forces of an orthotropic plate. Moreover, the main girders, the roadway and the horizontal links connect statically and constructively in a whole monolithic structure. Thus, the construction follows better the real distribution of internal forces in steel structure. Loading possibility of high-quality steel material is well used, by which the economic effect of the construction increases significantly compared to the riveted old bridges. The application of this theory in Bulgaria in the period 1976 – 1992 allowed the Bulgarian bridge construction to build several unique by their size steel road bridges of steel orthotropic decks. Y1 - 2018 SN - 1310-814X VL - 51 IS - 4 SP - 295 EP - 311 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Partov, Doncho A1 - Pasternak, Hartmut A1 - Grekov, Petar A1 - Nikolov, Radoslav A1 - Dimitrova, Antoaneta T1 - About the Theory of Orthotropic Steel Plate Established by Wilhelm Cornelius and its Application for Analysis of Two Steel Bridges With Orthotropic Decks in Varna T2 - X Jubilee International Scientific Conference „Civil Engineering Design and Construction“, Sept. 20-22, 2018, Varna, Bulgaria Y1 - 2018 UR - https://www.b-tu.de/fg-stahlbau/publikationen/veroeffentlichungen SP - 469 EP - 481 ER -