A multi-level structural assessment strategy for reinforced concrete bridge deck slabs
Artikel i vetenskaplig tidskrift, 2017

This paper proposes a multi-level assessment strategy for reinforced concrete bridge deck slabs. The strategy is based on the principle of successively improved evaluation in structural assessment. It provides a structured approach to the use of simplified as well as advanced non-linear analysis methods. Such advanced methods have proven to possess great possibilities of achieving better understanding of the structural response and of revealing higher load-carrying capacity of existing structures. The proposed methods were used for the analysis of previously tested two-way slabs subjected to bending failure and a cantilever slab subjected to a shear type of failure, in both cases loaded with concentrated loads. As expected, the results show that more advanced methods yield an improved understanding of the structural response and are capable of demonstrating higher, yet conservative, predictions of the load-carrying capacity. Nevertheless, the proposed strategy clearly provides the engineering community a framework for using successively improved structural analysis methods for enhanced assessment in a straightforward manner.

non-linear finite-element analysis

reinforced concrete slabs

Multi-level assessment

shear-type failure

load-carrying capacity

bending failure

Författare

Mario Plos

Chalmers, Bygg- och miljöteknik, Konstruktionsteknik

Jiangpeng Shu

Chalmers, Bygg- och miljöteknik, Konstruktionsteknik

Kamyab Zandi

Chalmers, Bygg- och miljöteknik, Konstruktionsteknik

Karin Lundgren

Chalmers, Bygg- och miljöteknik, Konstruktionsteknik

Structure and Infrastructure Engineering

1573-2479 (ISSN) 1744-8980 (eISSN)

Vol. 13 2 223-241

Styrkeområden

Transport

Building Futures (2010-2018)

Ämneskategorier

Infrastrukturteknik

DOI

10.1080/15732479.2016.1162177

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Skapat

2017-10-08