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Folded plate action for concrete box girder bridges

 Folded plate action for concrete box girder bridges
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Presented at IABSE Congress: Challenges in Design and Construction of an Innovative and Sustainable Built Environment, Stockholm, Sweden, 21-23 September 2016, published in , pp. 2050-2057
DOI: 10.2749/stockholm.2016.2058
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As already described in begin eighties in Structural Engineering Document 1 “Concrete Box-girder Bridges” [1] the Folded Plate Action of torsion stiff concrete box-girder bridges cannot be disregar...
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Author(s): (Royal HaskoningDHV, the Netherlands)
(Royal HaskoningDHV, the Netherlands)
(Royal HaskoningDHV, the Netherlands)
(Royal HaskoningDHV, the Netherlands)
Medium: conference paper
Language(s): English
Conference: IABSE Congress: Challenges in Design and Construction of an Innovative and Sustainable Built Environment, Stockholm, Sweden, 21-23 September 2016
Published in:
Page(s): 2050-2057 Total no. of pages: 8
Page(s): 2050-2057
Total no. of pages: 8
Year: 2016
DOI: 10.2749/stockholm.2016.2058
Abstract:

As already described in begin eighties in Structural Engineering Document 1 “Concrete Box-girder Bridges” [1] the Folded Plate Action of torsion stiff concrete box-girder bridges cannot be disregarded. But nowadays many designs are made by 3D Finite Element Analysis using 2D plate/shell elements, although the number of loading cases described by the codes has increased and the computer programs have become black boxes.

Despite these Finite Element Analyses the theory of Folded Plate Action can still be useful. With the folded plate theory the governing loading situations can be determined and thus the number of loading situations in a 3D model can be reduced and the output of the 3D model can be checked. Also for the structural assessment of existing structures the theory can be very useful.

Keywords:
finite element analysis FEA folded plate action concrete box-girder bridges