Tame Valley Viaduct Assessment and Strengthening
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Bibliographic Details
| Author(s): |
Sarah Jane Blick
(Atkins, Birmingham, UK)
Chris West (Atkins, Birmingham, UK) |
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| 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: | IABSE Congress Stockholm, 2016 | ||||
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| Page(s): | 1509-1516 | ||||
| Total no. of pages: | 8 | ||||
| Year: | 2016 | ||||
| DOI: | 10.2749/stockholm.2016.1504 | ||||
| Abstract: |
Tame Valley Viaduct is a 620m long multi-span highway structure linking Birmingham city centre to the M6 motorway. An assessment in 2004 found the capacity of the structure to be inadequate for current loading, resulting in a requirement for strengthening. Before strengthening works were designed, a comprehensive, refined re-assessment of the structure was undertaken to fully define which areas needed strengthening and which did not. The composite structure comprises a reinforced-concrete slab and typically four longitudinal steel box girders. Each of these longitudinal girders comprises approximately 600 sets of web and flange panels. The scale of the task required automation of the assessment and design process. This paper discusses how the automation was undertaken including the preparation of models to calculate individual panel loading, assessment of the web and flange panels, and the checking of strengthening solutions. |
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| Keywords: |
bridges composite structures strengthening assessment automation steel box-girders
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