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Stress Indicators - A Complete Checking System of Stresses for Box Section

 Stress Indicators - A Complete Checking System of Stresses for Box Section
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Presented at IABSE Symposium: Long Span Bridges, Istanbul, Turkey, 26-28 April 2023, published in , pp. 1003-1009
DOI: 10.2749/istanbul.2023.1003
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The Box section has complicated mechanical behavior under loads, including in-plane and out-of-plane stresses in each slab of box components. Traditional checking stresses originated from simple op...
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Author(s): (Department of Bridge Engineering/ Tongji University Shanghai, China)
(Department of Bridge Engineering/ Tongji University Shanghai, China)
(Shanghai Road and Bridge Group Co., Ltd., Shanghai, China)
(Department of Bridge Engineering/ Tongji University, Shanghai, China)
Medium: conference paper
Language(s): English
Conference: IABSE Symposium: Long Span Bridges, Istanbul, Turkey, 26-28 April 2023
Published in:
Page(s): 1003-1009 Total no. of pages: 7
Page(s): 1003-1009
Total no. of pages: 7
Year: 2023
DOI: 10.2749/istanbul.2023.1003
Abstract:

The Box section has complicated mechanical behavior under loads, including in-plane and out-of-plane stresses in each slab of box components. Traditional checking stresses originated from simple open sections, such as rectangular, T and I sections, featured by normal stresses at extreme fibers and shear stress in the web. For statically indeterminate box sections, cracks found in the outside surface of the web were much different from those found inside the web. This means that the stress indicator for the outside surface of the web should be different from the stress indicator for the inside surface of the web. These indicators are even different from the indicator at the middle lane of the web, which actually is the traditional shear stress indication in the web. The newly developed stress indicator system includes nine stress indicators in each slab of the box components. Each slab has three layers, i.e., the top, bottom and middle layer. Each layer has three stress directions: longitudinal, transverse and principal. Thus, the nine stress indicators for each slab will consist of all the mechanical behavior, including bending, shear and torsion, under symmetrical and unsymmetrical loads for slabs of the box section. This stress indicator system plays an important role in forensic engineering, especially for deficient bridges.

Keywords:
bridge box section forensic engineering Stress indicator Bridge deficiency