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Numerical Limit Analysis of Slab Bridges with Construction Joints

 Numerical Limit Analysis of Slab Bridges with Construction Joints
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Presented at IABSE Conference: Engineering the Past, to Meet the Needs of the Future, Copenhagen, Denmark, 25-27 June 2018, published in , pp. 47-54
DOI: 10.2749/copenhagen.2018.047
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The conic yield criteria for reinforced concrete slabs in bending are often used when evaluating the load‐carrying capacity of slab bridges. In the last decades, the yield criteria combined with num...
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Author(s): (COWI A/S, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark)
(Technical University of Denmark, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark)
(Technical University of Denmark, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark)
Medium: conference paper
Language(s): English
Conference: IABSE Conference: Engineering the Past, to Meet the Needs of the Future, Copenhagen, Denmark, 25-27 June 2018
Published in:
Page(s): 47-54 Total no. of pages: 8
Page(s): 47-54
Total no. of pages: 8
DOI: 10.2749/copenhagen.2018.047
Abstract: The conic yield criteria for reinforced concrete slabs in bending are often used when evaluating the load‐carrying capacity of slab bridges. In the last decades, the yield criteria combined with numerical limit analysis have shown to be efficient methods to determine the load carrying capacity of slabs. However, the yield criteria overestimate the torsion capacity of slabs with high reinforcement ratios and it cannot handle slabs with construction joints. In this paper, numerical limit analysis with the conic yield criteria are compared with yield criteria based on an optimized layer model. The analysis show an increasing overestimation of the load carrying capacity for increasing reinforcement degrees. Furthermore, yield criteria, which combine the conic yield criteria with an extra linear criterion due to friction, are presented for slab bridges with construction joints. The yield criteria for slabs with construction joints are used, in combination with limit analysis, to evaluate a bridge constructed of pre‐cast overturned T‐beams and in‐situ concrete. The analysis show that the load carrying capacity is overestimated, when the construction joints are not considered in the yield criteria.
Keywords:
assessment yield criteria finite element limit analysis slab bridges construction joints