As a service to the bridge design profession, Bethlehem Steel has conducted hundreds of studies of steel plate girder bridges using its Preliminary Bridge Girder Optimization Program. The program is unique because it optimizes plate girder designs on the basis of least cost, not least weight. An evaluation of many study results leads to a number of guidelines which are offered in this paper. Wh...

To improve the stability of the magnet-girder assemblies in the ESRF storage ring, vibration investigations have been carried out for in situ magnet-girder assemblies and a prototype. Characterisation tests were performed : operating response measurements, static stiffness measurements, modal testing. A finite element modelling (FEM) is being carried out for the prototype assembly. First result...

The streamline flat steel box girder is broadly used in long span cablesupported bridges all over the world. As one of the most important part of the bridges, its stress level and distribution under various dynamic loads are especially concerned. However, it is difficult to obtain the accurate stress of the steel box girder by common finite element (FE) calculation. The Runyang Suspension Bridg...

This paper presents a stability investigation of a special-shape arch bridge with a span of 180 m. Its structure and mechanics are significantly different from normal arch bridges because of its single arch rib skewing across the girder, its hangers hanging unevenly along the arch rib with different aslant angle, and its arch rib being subjected to massive axial compression force, bending momen...

In steel trapezoidal box girder bridge systems, the U-shaped steel girder is designed to act compositely with the concrete deck to form a closed box for live loading. During the construction stage, however, the behavior is not well understood. The usual practice of assuming the system to be non-composite during construction requires substantial top flange bracing to form a quasi-closed box sect...

Interest in the seakeeping loads of vessels has increased dramatically in recent years. In current design practice, methods for predicting seakeeping motions and loads are mainly in two categories, strip theory methods and 3Dpanel methods. Methods based on strip theory provide reasonable motion prediction and are computationally efficient. However, many strip theory methods provide only hull gi...

A bridge is a structure providing passage over an obstacle without closing the way beneath. The required passage may be for a road, a railway, pedestrians, a canal or a pipeline. Now a days, bridge deck section of Box shapes are used widely. Most of the bridges constructed are of Box girders. Method of post-tensioning in the construction of bridges is very common today. Most of the bridges are ...

Based on the theory of vehicle track coupling dynamics, the local vibration of the high-speed railway box girder is analyzed by the Finite Element Method and the model is simulated with the solid elements. Through the study of vibration characteristics of the selected 6 sensitive points, the local vibrations in different parts of the box girder are figured out. It is compared the response of th...

In this paper, the stress-related damping ratio formula of box girder with corrugated steel webs is introduced. Using response spectrum method, an iterative algorithm is proposed to calculate the seismic response and the stressrelated damping ratio under different seismic intensities. Based on a simply supported composite box girder bridge with corrugated steel webs, the stress-related damping ...

A very detailed 2D-solid finite element model is developed representing the load carrying box girder of a wind turbine blade. Using typical geometrical values for the girder dimensions and public available material data, the overall cross-sectional behaviour is analysed for a simple compressive line load. The results are compared with result from similar shell models, which typically are used f...