Analysis of the Arrangement of Prestressed Steel in Web of Continuous Concrete Box-Girder Bridges

Abstract:

Concrete continuous box- girder bridges have a large proportion in small span and long span bridges, and it has very broad prospects for development. Along with the large-scale construction of this kind of bridge, various problems have also emerged, especially the damage of RC beam’s diagonal section in bridge girder deflection. It always appears the inclined cracks in webs which cause by principal tensile stress, so it will be the potential damage to the whole bridge. However, the existence of the vertical prestress, will make the principal tensile stress of box girder in greatly reduced. So as to make cracking resistance performance of diagonal section is better than the ordinary reinforced concrete bridge. For an engineering example, this paper puts forward several different vertical prestressed steel arrangements. Based on different decorate a form of vertical pretressd bridge girder under stress numerical simulation, it is concluded that bridge’s web principal tensile stress distribution and its variation law, and then optimize the vertical reinforcing steel arrangement, improve the overall safety of bridge structure. It can provide the reference in the process of construction when we face the similar problems in the future.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volumes 587-589)
• Pages: 1359-1363
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.587-589.1359
• Online since: July 2014
• Authors: Lan Qiao, Shao Wen Zhang
• Keywords: Continuous Box-Girder Bridge, Prestressed Concrete, Prestressed Steel, Principal Tensile Stress

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