Based on Zhonghua Road Bridge in Liaocheng city, a single tower hybrid cable-stayed bridge, the stress of steelconcrete joint girder is studied using finite element method with software MIDAS and ANSYS. The beam model whole bridge established CIVIL, from which internal forces critical sections steel–concrete under six adverse conditions are obtained. Then, results applied refined solid-shell Wi...

The safety risk events that may occur during the cast-in-situ process of a concrete box girder an interchange bridge with high piers in mountainous areas are briefly listed. Based on backgro...

Abstract: Steel-concrete composite beam cable-stayed bridge is a complicated system consisting of a composite beam, tower, and stayed cables. And the composite beam is composed of a steel beam, bridge deck and connectors, which has a different mechanical behavior from the general beam structure. In a word, the steel-concrete composite beam cable-stayed bridge is characterized by specific mechan...

In this paper, the bi-directional evolutionary structural optimization (BESO) method is used to find optimal layouts of 3D prestressed concrete beams. Considering the element sensitivity number as the design variable, the mathematical formulation of topology optimization is developed based on the ABAQUS finite element software package. The surface-to-surface contact with a small sliding between...

Shear connectors are used in steel beam-concrete slabs of composite frame and bridge structures to transfer shear force according to design loads. The existing Y-type perfobond rib shear connectors are designed for girder slabs of composite bridges. Therefore, the rib and transverse rebars of the conventional Y-type perfobond rib shear connectors are extremely large for the composite frames of ...

This paper identifies assessment techniques for critical parameters relative to installation and performance of fiber reinforced polymer (FRP) materials as a way to strengthen structurally deficient concrete bridges. Various Nondestructive Testing (NDT) techniques, representing viable solutions for identification and monitoring of such critical parameters on structural members strengthened with...

Abstract. Recently, an indirect displacement estimation method using data fusion of acceleration and strain (i.e., acceleration-strain-based method) has been developed. Though the method showed good performance on beam-like structures, it has inherent limitation in applying to more general types of bridges that may have complex shapes, because it uses assumed analytical (sinusoidal) mode shapes...

Composite steel/concrete beams may buckle in hogging bending regions. As the top flange of I-beam in that arrangement is restricted from any translational deformation and twist, the web will distort during buckling presenting a phenomenon often described as restricted distortional buckling. There are limited studies available in the literature of restricted distortional buckling of composite st...