Modelling the non-linear behaviour of the pot bearings of railway bridge KW51
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Bibliographic Details
| Author(s): |
Menno Van de Velde
(Department of Civil Engineering, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium)
Kristof Maes (Department of Civil Engineering, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium) Geert Lombaert 
(Department of Civil Engineering, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium)
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| Medium: | conference paper | ||||
| Language(s): | English | ||||
| Conference: | IABSE Congress: Structural Engineering for Future Societal Needs, Ghent, Belgium, 22-24 September 2021 | ||||
| Published in: | IABSE Congress Ghent 2021 | ||||
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| Page(s): | 404-411 | ||||
| Total no. of pages: | 8 | ||||
| DOI: | 10.2749/ghent.2021.0404 | ||||
| Abstract: |
Railway bridge KW51 in Leuven, Belgium, has been monitored since October 2018 with the aim of constructing a digital twin, i.e. a virtual representation that mimics the behaviour of the actual struc- ture. A linear finite element model of the bridge was updated using measurements carried out on the bridge. The pot bearings of the bridge, however, are found to behave in a non-linear way. This paper describes a methodology to account for this non-linear behaviour in the model, where friction in the bearings is accounted for by means of non-linear Bouc-Wen elements. The first results are presented, showing that the overall non-linear behaviour of the bearings during a train passage is well captured but that further research is needed to calibrate the model parameters. |
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| Keywords: |
pot bearings Digital twin railway bridge KW51 Bouw-Wen friction force
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| Copyright: | © 2021 International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering (IABSE) | ||||
| License: | This creative work is copyrighted material and may not be used without explicit approval by the author and/or copyright owner. |
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