This paper focuses on the seismic performance of mountainous railway\nbridges having different pier type i.e. rectangular hollow piers and solid piers.\nThe piers used were of same materials and inertial properties. For this, 3-D\nFEM models of these bridges were created by ANSYS 15.0. For seismic assessment,\nResponse Spectrum and Dynamic Time-History Analysis methods\nwere adopted. Different types of earthquake waves used were Elcentro, Wenchuan\nand Nepal earthquakes, all normalized to 0.3 g Peak Ground Acceleration\n(PGA). The study concluded that even though the hollow pier bridges\nare susceptible to large displacements, its dealing with internal forces is remarkable\ncompared to solid pier bridges.
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