RETRACTED: Innovative method in seismic design of slab-on-girder steel bridges

This article has been retracted at the request of the Editors-in-Chief. Please see Elsevier Policy on Article Withdrawal (http://www.elsevier.com/locate/withdrawalpolicy).Reason: This article has been found to contain significant duplication of text and other materials from three papers published previously by other authors:1. Bruneau, M., Sarraf, M., S.M., Zahrai, Alfawakhiri, F. “Displacement-Based Energy Dissipation Systems for Steel Bridges Diaphragms”, invited paper, J. Constr. Steel Res., 58 (2002) 801–817, doi:10.1016/S0143-974X(01)00084-02. Zahrai, S.M., Bruneau, M. “Cyclic Testing of Ductile End-Diaphragms for Slab-on-Girder Steel Bridges”, ASCE J. Struct. Eng., 125 (1999) 987–996.3. Zahrai, S.M., Bruneau, M. (1999). “Ductile End-Diaphragms for the Seismic Retrofit of Slab-on-Girder Steel Bridges”, ASCE J. Struct. Eng., 125 (1999) 71–80.One of the conditions of submission of a paper for publication is that authors declare explicitly that their work is original and has not appeared in a publication elsewhere. Re-use of any data should be appropriately cited. As such this article represents a severe abuse of the scientific publishing system. The scientific community takes a very strong view on this matter and we apologize to readers of the journal that this was not detected during the submission process.