Lantsoght, E.O.; Koekkoek, R.; van der Veen, C.; Sliedrecht, H. Fatigue Assessment of Prestressed Concrete Slab-Between-Girder Bridges. Appl. Sci.2019, 9, 2312.
Lantsoght, E.O.; Koekkoek, R.; van der Veen, C.; Sliedrecht, H. Fatigue Assessment of Prestressed Concrete Slab-Between-Girder Bridges. Appl. Sci. 2019, 9, 2312.
Lantsoght, E.O.; Koekkoek, R.; van der Veen, C.; Sliedrecht, H. Fatigue Assessment of Prestressed Concrete Slab-Between-Girder Bridges. Appl. Sci.2019, 9, 2312.
Lantsoght, E.O.; Koekkoek, R.; van der Veen, C.; Sliedrecht, H. Fatigue Assessment of Prestressed Concrete Slab-Between-Girder Bridges. Appl. Sci. 2019, 9, 2312.
Abstract
In the Netherlands, the assessment of existing prestressed concrete slab-between-girder bridges showed that the thin, transversely prestressed slabs may be critical for static and fatigue punching when evaluated using the recently introduced Eurocodes. On the other hand, compressive membrane action increases the capacity of these slabs and changes the failure mode from bending to punching shear. To improve the assessment of the existing prestressed slab-between-girder bridges in the Netherlands, two 1:2 scale models of an existing bridge, the Van Brienenoord Bridge, were built in the laboratory and tested monotonically as well as under cycles of loading. The result of these experiments is: 1) the static strength of the decks, showing that compressive membrane action significantly enhances the punching capacity, and 2) the Wöhler curve of the decks, showing that compressive membrane action remains under fatigue loading. The experimental results can then be used for the assessment of the most critical existing slab-between-girder bridge. The outcome is that the bridge has sufficient punching capacity for static and fatigue loads, and thus that the existing slab-between-girder bridges in the Netherlands fulfil the code requirements for static and fatigue punching.
Keywords
assessment; bridge evaluation; compressive membrane action; concrete bridges; fatigue; fatigue assessment; live loads; prestressed concrete; punching shear; scale model
Subject
Engineering, Civil Engineering
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