Response Modification for Enhanced Operation and Safety of Bridges
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Response Modification for Enhanced Operation and Safety of Bridges
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2011-08
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University of Minnesota Center for Transportation Studies
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This report shows that safe extension of the service life of existing bridge structures is possible through bridge health monitoring and structural response modification. To understand bridge health monitoring and structural response modification and control, it is necessary to examine: 1) common bridge vulnerabilities, 2) bridge loading models, 3) response modification devices, and 4) bridge monitoring systems. The efficacy of response modification
techniques on a realistic bridge system were demonstrated using the Cedar Avenue Bridge in Minnesota as a specific example. The Cedar Avenue Bridge is a steel tied arch bridge which means that it is fracture critical. Due to the non-redundant nature of a fracture critical bridge, fatigue failure could be catastrophic and is of concern.
Previous research has shown that stress concentrations exist at the joints where the hangers and floor beams are attached to the box girder [7]. Using a simulation of response modification on the Cedar Avenue Bridge model, stress ranges have been reduced on these specific details that are of concern. Modeling using a scissor jack and
simple damping device has shown that stress ranges can be reduced by approximately 39% which can lead to life extension of as much as 346%.
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Gastineau, Andrew; Schultz, Arturo; Wojtkiewicz, Steven. (2011). Response Modification for Enhanced Operation and Safety of Bridges. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/112743.
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