Study on Fatigue Performance of Arc Notch of Diaphragm in Steel Box Girder

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

Steel box girders are easily subjected to fatigue cracking under the vehicle loading, and the crack initiating from arc notch of diaphragm is one of the typical fatigue details. The stress characteristics of diaphragm and U-rib in real bridge under the vehicle loading were analysed, as well as the deformation characteristics. Experimental work on fatigue crack propagation and bearing capacity was conducted. Simulations using the fi nite-element method were undertaken, and the crack propagation behaviours were studied. It is found that the out-of-plane deformation is the main cause of crack propagation at arc notch of diaphragm in real bridge. Fatigue testing data of 9 diaphragm-rib specimens carried out by the vibration fatigue test system and results of FEM simulations show that the rate and path of fatigue crack propagation changed signifi cantly during the fatigue crack propagation. The fatigue crack initiates as a tensile-shear mixed mode crack and turns to single tensile mode with the increase of crack length.

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