TY - JOUR
T1 - Local impact analysis for deck slabs of prestressed concrete box-girder bridges subject to vehicle loading
AU - Yu, Yang
AU - Deng, Lu
AU - Wang, Wei
AU - Cai, C. S.
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors gratefully acknowledge the financial support provided by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (grant numbers 51208189 and 51478176) and Excellent Youth Foundation of Hunan Scientific Committee (grant number 14JJ1014).
Publisher Copyright:
© SAGE Publications.
PY - 2017/1/1
Y1 - 2017/1/1
N2 - In bridge design codes, the dynamic impact factor (IM) is a well-accepted measure of the impact effect of vehicular loads on bridges. Many previous studies focused on the evaluation of IMs based on the global responses of the main girders while little attention was paid to the local impact effect on bridge decks. As a result, the IMs specified in many design codes, which were traditionally derived from the global responses of bridges, may not be necessarily reasonable for the design of deck slabs. This study was intended to investigate the local impact effect of vehicular loads on the deck slabs of prestressed concrete box-girder bridges. A bridge-vehicle coupled model was adopted to calculate both the local and global IMs. The obtained local and global IMs were compared and the relationship between the IM and three important parameters, including the road surface condition, vehicle speed, and bridge span length, was studied. The results showed that there was no strong correlation between the global and local IMs; however, the local IMs were well correlated with the road surface condition and bridge span length. A discussion on the impact provisions in different bridge codes was also presented.
AB - In bridge design codes, the dynamic impact factor (IM) is a well-accepted measure of the impact effect of vehicular loads on bridges. Many previous studies focused on the evaluation of IMs based on the global responses of the main girders while little attention was paid to the local impact effect on bridge decks. As a result, the IMs specified in many design codes, which were traditionally derived from the global responses of bridges, may not be necessarily reasonable for the design of deck slabs. This study was intended to investigate the local impact effect of vehicular loads on the deck slabs of prestressed concrete box-girder bridges. A bridge-vehicle coupled model was adopted to calculate both the local and global IMs. The obtained local and global IMs were compared and the relationship between the IM and three important parameters, including the road surface condition, vehicle speed, and bridge span length, was studied. The results showed that there was no strong correlation between the global and local IMs; however, the local IMs were well correlated with the road surface condition and bridge span length. A discussion on the impact provisions in different bridge codes was also presented.
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U2 - 10.1177/1077546315575434
DO - 10.1177/1077546315575434
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85006372329
SN - 1077-5463
VL - 23
SP - 31
EP - 45
JO - JVC/Journal of Vibration and Control
JF - JVC/Journal of Vibration and Control
IS - 1
ER -