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Evaluating Fatigue Performance of Sign, Signal and Luminaire Structures

 Evaluating Fatigue Performance of Sign, Signal and Luminaire Structures
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Présenté pendant 17th IABSE Congress: Creating and Renewing Urban Structures – Tall Buildings, Bridges and Infrastructure, Chicago, USA, 17-19 September 2008, publié dans , pp. 398-399
DOI: 10.2749/222137908796293082
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Fatigue performance of welded connections in highway signs, signals and high level luminaire structures are being evaluated as part of ongoing research under NCHRP Project 10-70. Fatigue failure of...
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Médium: papier de conférence
Langue(s): anglais
Conférence: 17th IABSE Congress: Creating and Renewing Urban Structures – Tall Buildings, Bridges and Infrastructure, Chicago, USA, 17-19 September 2008
Publié dans:
Page(s): 398-399 Nombre total de pages (du PDF): 8
Page(s): 398-399
Nombre total de pages (du PDF): 8
Année: 2008
DOI: 10.2749/222137908796293082
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Fatigue performance of welded connections in highway signs, signals and high level luminaire structures are being evaluated as part of ongoing research under NCHRP Project 10-70. Fatigue failure of these structures is increasingly being reported in the United States due to wind induced oscillations, which has serious economic impact on the limited infrastructure resources from safety and maintenance points of view. Most of the fatigue cracking in service has been reported in tube- to-end plate welds at a relatively short life due to the large secondary out of plane stresses developed in the thin walled tubes from incompatibility in deformation, which is precipitated by the flexibility of the end plate. The existing AASHTO specification, which is based on nominal stress and derived from the guidelines that are valid for predominantly in-plane stresses or membrane stresses, is often inadequate in designing these structures against service limit state of fatigue. This paper presents experimental evaluation of welded connections in 12 full size sign/signal and high level luminaire structures, and compares the test results with predicted fatigue lives obtained by a hot-spot stress based analytical protocol.