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An Analysis of Skewed Bridge/Vehicle Interaction Using the Grillage Method - asim99 - 11-27-2012 An Analysis of Skewed Bridge/Vehicle Interaction Using the Grillage Method Author: H. Zeng, J. Kuehn, J. Sun, H. Stalford | Size: 49 KB | Format: PDF | Quality: Original preprint | Publisher: H. Zeng, J. Kuehn, J. Sun, H. Stalford | pages: 6
The 1998 Bridge Inventory classified approximately 68,000 of the 280,000 American highway bridges as substandard. One way to extend the useful service life of a bridge is to reduce peak vehicle loads. Field tests conducted at Walnut Creek Bridge on Interstate 35 near Purcell, Oklahoma revealed that it is common for vehicles to exert peak dynamic loads 1.3-1.7 times their static weights on the bridge. The focus of this work is to model the dynamic interaction between vehicles and the bridge to facilitate the development of strategies aimed at reducing dynamic loads applied to the bridge. Walnut Creek Bridge is a two-lane, four-span, continuous steel girder bridge with a reinforced concrete deck. The bridge structure is modeled as an assembly of grillage members, consisting of longitudinal and transverse torsion beams. The finite element model includes 205 nodes and 425 elements. The vehicle used in the analysis is a 36,000kg tractor-trailer, which is the heaviest vehicle allowed on this bridge without a permit. The vehicle model is a 7 degree-of-freedom planar representation that accounts for both the heave and pitch. The equations of motion of the vehicle and the bridge are treated as two subsystems and are solved separately using the fourth order Runge-Kutta integration method in state space. The compatibility equations at the interface between the vehicle tires and bridge deck are satisfied by an iterative procedure. The simulation results are compared to experimental results obtained by using a tractor-trailer for both quasi-static and dynamic tests. A response of a typical point of the bridge has a peak error of 8.2% and an RMS error of 12.4% for the quasi-static case, and a 17.6% peak error and a 24.5% RMS error for the dynamic case, respectively. The close agreement between the simulations and experiments enables a study of the influence of various parameters which contribute to the response of the interacted system. Code: *************************************** |