Fatigue-Prone Details in Steel Bridges
Journal article, 2012

This paper reviews the results of a comprehensive investigation including more than 100 fatigue damage cases, reported for steel and composite bridges. The damage cases are categorized according to types of detail. The mechanisms behind fatigue damage in each category are identified and studied. It was found that more than 90% of all reported damage cases are of deformation-induced type and generated by some kind of unintentional or otherwise overlooked interaction between different load-carrying members or systems in the bridge. Poor detailing, with unstiffened gaps and abrupt changes in stiffness at the connections between different members were also found to contribute to fatigue cracking in many details.

steel bridges

fatigue

deformation induced cracking

failure

girder

Author

Reza Haghani Dogaheh

Chalmers, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Structural Engineering

Mohammad Al-Emrani

Chalmers, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Structural Engineering

Mohsen Heshmati

Chalmers, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Structural Engineering

Buildings

20755309 (eISSN)

Vol. 2 4 456-476

Areas of Advance

Transport

Subject Categories

Civil Engineering

Infrastructure Engineering

Other Civil Engineering

DOI

10.3390/buildings2040456

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