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Fatigue life prediction of orthotropic steel decks based on Phase Field model

 Fatigue life prediction of orthotropic steel decks based on Phase Field model
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Presented at IABSE Symposium: Construction’s Role for a World in Emergency, Manchester, United Kingdom, 10-14 April 2024, published in , pp. 328-335
DOI: 10.2749/manchester.2024.0328
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The Orthotropic Steel Deck (OSD) is prone to fatigue crack due to initial defects caused by welding and the cyclic loading. Instead of sharp crack path tracking in OSD fatigue crack failure modelin...
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Author(s): (Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, China RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany)
(Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, China)
(Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, China)
(RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany)
(RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany)
Medium: conference paper
Language(s): English
Conference: IABSE Symposium: Construction’s Role for a World in Emergency, Manchester, United Kingdom, 10-14 April 2024
Published in:
Page(s): 328-335 Total no. of pages: 8
Page(s): 328-335
Total no. of pages: 8
DOI: 10.2749/manchester.2024.0328
Abstract:

The Orthotropic Steel Deck (OSD) is prone to fatigue crack due to initial defects caused by welding and the cyclic loading. Instead of sharp crack path tracking in OSD fatigue crack failure modeling, Phase Field (PF) approach uses diffuse damage localization, which has been adopted in simulating the crack propagation in OSD. The Nominal Stress method was used to simplify the OSD into a two- dimensional model, and the initial defects and residual stresses were incorporated in the model. Based on the PF model, the remaining fatigue life of typical welded details in an OSD was predicted. An Ultra High-Performance Concrete (UHPC) strengthening technique was presented, and the schemes before and post strengthened were compared under the same test conditions. The results show that the PF model is efficient in assessing the remaining fatigue life of OSD, and the fatigue life of OSD can be improved by this strengthening scheme.

Keywords:
fatigue orthotropic steel deck crack steel bridge Phase Field