Refereed Papers

1970s

Sweeney, R.A.P., “Load Spectrum for Fraser River Bridge at New Westminster, B.C.”, Proceedings A.R.E.A., Volume 77, Bulletin 658, June-July 1976, A.R.E.A., Washington, D.C.

Sweeney, R.A.P., “Some Examples of Detecting and Repair of Fatigue Damage in Railway Bridge Members”, T.R.B. Record 676, 1978, Transportation Research Board, Washington, D.C.

Sweeney, R.A.P., “Some Track Problems Associated with Protected Conventional High Speed North American Locomotives”, Proceedings A.R.E.A., Vol. 80, Bulletin No. 659, September-October, 1978, A.R.E.A., Washington, D.C.

Sweeney, Robert A.P., “Some Remarks on the Service Behaviour of Steel Railway Bridges”, IASBE Symposium, Zurich 1979.

Sweeney, R.A.P., “The Importance of Redundancy in Bridge Fracture Control”, T.R.B. Record 711, 1979, Transportation Research Board, Washington, D.C.

1980s

Sweeney, R.A.P., “Evaluation of Bridges for Fatigue Damage”, Bridge Maintenance and Rehabilitation Conference, Morgantown, WVA, August 13-16, 1980, pp. 476-490, American Society of Civil Engineers, Washington, D.C.

Sweeney, R.A.P., “Rehabilitation and Repair of Bridges:, IASBE Symposium, Washington, D.C., 1982.

Goodpasture, D.W., Sweeney, R.A. P., et all, Task Committee, “Evaluation of Existing Steel Flexural Members”, ASCE 1982?

Hall, D.H., Sweeney, R.A.P. et all, Task Committee ASCE-AASHTO, “State-of-the-Art Report on Redundant Flexural Systems” ASCE ???1983 or 4


1990s

Sweeney, R.A.P., “Update on Fatigue Issues at Canadian National Railways:, IASBE Workshop Lausanne 1990.

Gault, G., Nowak, G., Stenbold, A., Skaberna, S. and Sweeney, R.A.P., “Fraser River Bridge Rehabilitation”, C.S.C.E. Proceeding, Vol. 1, May 27-29, 1992, Quebec, Canadian Society for Civil Engineering, Montreal, 1992.

Sweeney, R.A.P., “New American Railway Engineering Association Fatigue Rules for the Design and Evaluation of Railway Bridges”, CSCE Proceedings, Vol. 1, May 27-29, 1992, Canadian Society for Civil Engineering, Montreal, Canada.

Oommen, George, Cavaco, Jose and Sweeney, Robert A.P., “Repair of a Through Truss on the Verge of Collapse”, Symposium on Practical Solutions for Bridge Strengthening and Rehabilitation, Des Moines, Iowa, USA, April 1993.

Yen, B.T., Zhou, Yi, Fisher, J.W., Sweeney, R.A.P. Sweeney, “Effects of Heavy Haul on the Fatigue Life of Riveted Bridge Members”, 5th International Heavy Haul Conference 1993, Beijing, IHHA Virginia Beach, VA

Oommen, G., Sweeney, R.A.P., “Application of Technology in Railway Bridge Infrastructure Management and Decision Making” Conference Proceedings, Halifax, 1994.

Agarwal, A.C., Birkemoe, P.C., Goel, A.P., Sweeney, R.A.P., Thompson, J.C. and Topper, T.H., “Issues in structural fatigue design and evaluation, Volume 21, Number 6, 1994, Pages 903-912, Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering (CNRC), Canada.

Oommen, George, Sweeney, Robert A.P. and Le, Hoat, “Evaluation of Carrying Capacity and Useful Service Life of Railway Bridges Through Field Testing”, InterNational Heavy Haul Conference, Manzini, Swaziland, 1994.

Oommen, George and Sweeney, Robert A.P., “Application of Modern Technologies in Railway Bridge Infrastructure Management and Decision Making”, NATO Advanced Research Workshop, Wroclaw, Poland, October 1994.

Zhou, Y.E., Yen, B.T., Fisher, J.W., Sweeney, R.A.P., “Examination of Fatigue Strength (Sr-N) Curves for Rivetted Bridge Members” 12th InternationalBridge Conference 1995, Engineers Society of Western Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, PA

Sweeney, Robert A.P. and Oommen, George, “A Summary of Seven Years of Railway Bridge Testing at Canadian National Railway”, American Railway Engineering Association, Bulletin 756, Volume 97, May 1996, Washington, DC, USA.

Oommen, George, Lim, Albert and Sweeney, Robert A.P., “Effect of Train Speed on Lateral Deflection of Deck Plate Girder Bridges”, 13th Annual International Bridge Conference, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, June 1996.

Sweeney, Robert A.P., Oommen, George and Le, Hoat, “Impact of Site Measurements on the Evaluation of Steel Railway Bridges”, IABSE Workshop – Evaluating Existing Steel and Composite Bridges, Volume 76, Lausanne, Switzerland, March 1997.

Otter, D.E., Sweeney R.A.P., “Fast Bridge Tie and Fastener Testing” AREA 1997 Technical Conference, A.R.E.A., Washington, D.C.

Sweeney, R.A.P., Le, Hoat and Oommen, George, “Service Level Live Load Stress Ranges of Hangers and Floor Beams of Steel Railway Bridges”, Volume 98, Bulletin 760, May 1997, A.R.E.A., Washington, D.C.

Sweeney, R.A.P. and Madsen, B., “Shear Strength of Douglas Fir Timber Bridge Ties”, T.R.B. Record, 1999, Washington, D.C.

2000s

Sweeney, Robert A.P. and Oommen, George, “The Current State of the Quebec Bridge”, 5th International Bridge Engineering Conference, Tampa, Florida, USA, April 2000.

Otter, D. E., Sweeney, R.A.P., Dick, S.M., “New Rating Guidelines for Longitudinal Forces in Steel Bridges” TD 00-014, 2000, TTCI (AAR) Pueblo, CO

Otter, D. E., Sweeney, R.A.P., Dick, S.M., “Development of Design Guidelines for Longitudinal Forces in Steel Bridges” TD 00-018, 2000, TTCI (AAR) Pueblo, CO.

Kline, E.S., Sweeney, R.A.P., “Quebec Bridge-To Paint or not to Paint?” AREMA Technical Conference 2000, AREMA , Landover,MD

Otter, D.E., LoPresti, J.A., Sweeney, R.A.P., “Longitudinal Forces in Bridges due to Heavy Haul Freight Operations”, 7th International Heavy Haul Conference, Australia 2001, IHHA, Virginia Beach, Virginia

Sweeney, R.A.P., Suthon, F., .”Design and Rating for Longitudinal Force”, AREMA Technical Conference 2002, Washington DC, AREMA Landover, MD

Sweeney, R.A.P. “Test Results for the Fatigue Design/Rating of Thru Truss Hangers” AREMA Technical Conference 2003, Chicago, I. AREMA Landover, MD.

Sweeney, R., “Nature of Longitudinal Forces and Past Test Results”, SEMINAR LONGITUDINAL FORCE, AREMA Technical Conference, Nashville, TN, September 19, 2004, AREMA Landover, MD.

Sweeney, R.A.P., “Railway Loadings and Reality”, Keynote Lecture and Paper, 6th International Conference on Short and Medium Span Bridges, CSCE 2006, Montreal, QC.

Sweeney, R.A.P., :AREMA Longitudinal Force Requirements”, 6th International Conference on Short and Medium Span Bridges, CSCE 2006, Montreal, QC.

Sweeney, R.A.P., Otter, D. “A Review of North American Railway Bridge Research”, IABSE Symposium, Weimar, Germany, 2007.


2010 +

Sweeney, R.A.P., ”Preserving the Asset for its Intended Use” Keynote Lecture and Paper, 5th International Conference IABMAS 2010, Philadelphia, Pa

Sweeney, R.A.P., Joy, Richard B., Otter, D., “Update on CWR on Open Deck Bridges”AREMA Technical Conference 2011, Chicago, AREMA Landover, MD.

Sweeney, R.A.P., Otter, D., “Update on AAR Bridge Testing and Monitoring”, 6th International Conference IABMAS 2012, Stresa, It.

Sweeney, R.A.P., “Conflicting Policies with CWR on Open Deck Bridges”, 6th International Conference IABMAS 2012, Stresa, It.

Sweeney, R.A.P., “The Philosophy Behind the North American Railway Fatigue Life Recommendations for Steel Bridge Evaluation”, IABSE Symposium 2014, Madrid, Spain.

Sweeney, R.A.P., “RESISTANCE AND LOADING FOR STEEL BRIDGE FATIGUE LIFE EVALUATION”, AREMA Technical Conference 2015, Minneapolis, MN. AREMA Landover, MD.

Sweeney, Robert A.P., “Factors Derived from Tests for Fatigue Evaluation of Typical North American Steel Railway Bridges”, J. of Bridge Engineering, Vol 23, No.7, July 2018, ASCE, Reston, VA.