Simply supported bridges in Taiwan were severely damaged in the latter after ChiChi Earthquake in 1999. In order to understand how the seismic force is transmitted from the bridge bearing to the piers, it is necessary to investigate the seismic behavior of the bridge bearing and concrete shear keys. The bridge in Taiwan is conventionally designed in a way of the strong-bearing-weak-column principle so that seismic energy is dissipated through the plastic hinges in the bridge piers. However, the strongcolumn-weak-bearing principle that dissipates energy through the friction in the bearing system has been proposed recently for the design of new bridges, in accordance with the concept of the performance based design. In this research, specimens of the steel-reinforced neoprene pad installed with steel or concrete shear keys commonly used in the simply supported bridges are constructed and tested. In addition to the tests, analytical models that can evaluate the shear strength as well as the force-deformation behavior for the bearing components with the shear keys are also proposed.