Structural Management of Avonmouth Bridge
| Author(s): |
Raghu Nair
John Macdonald Bruce Pucknell |
|---|---|
| Medium: | conference paper |
| Language(s): | English |
| Conference: | 35th Annual Symposium of IABSE / 52nd Annual Symposium of IASS / 6th International Conference on Space Structures: Taller, Longer, Lighter - Meeting growing demand with limited resources, London, United Kingdom, September 2011 |
| Published in: | IABSE-IASS 2011 London Symposium Report |
| Year: | 2011 |
| Abstract: |
The Avonmouth Bridge carries the M5 motorway over the River Avon. The steel box structure comprises twenty spans of between 30 and 174m. The structure was opened in the 1970s and subsequently strengthened towards the end of the 1990s to increase traffic capacity. The purpose of this assessment was to provide a management tool for the structure to assist with future maintenance, to enable prompt clearance of special loads to cross the bridge and to carry out an assessment of key elements of the structure in terms of strength and fatigue life. |
| Keywords: |
bridges fatigue cable vibration bridge specific loading
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