Verification of the Maximum Stresses in Enhanced Welded Details via High-Frequency Mechanical Impact in Road Bridges
Artikel i vetenskaplig tidskrift, 2023

High-frequency mechanical impact (HFMI) is an efficient post-weld treatment technique that enhances fatigue strength in metallic welded structures. Steel or steel-concrete composite road bridges, where the fatigue limit state often governs the design, compose one category of structures that can benefit from the application of this technology. To assert an improvement in fatigue strength using HFMI, the induced compressive residual stresses must be stable. Therefore, the maximum service stresses that can be allowed on HFMI-treated joints should be controlled to avoid the relaxation of the induced beneficial compressive stresses by HFMI treatment. Using statistical analysis of recorded traffic, this paper compares the measured maximum traffic loads to those generated by a load model. More than 870,000 and 470,000 recorded vehicles from traffic measurements in Sweden and the Netherlands are used in this analysis. To capture the characteristic bending moment, the daily maxima of the resulting measured load effect are combined with the extreme value distribution of the bending moment. In addition, it is found that the characteristic load combination is the best-studied option to assess the maximum stress in HFMI-treated weldments in road bridges.

road bridges

Peak over threshold

design for reuse

Gumbel distribution

weight in motion

HFMI treatment

Eurocode

Författare

Hassan al-Karawi

Chalmers, Arkitektur och samhällsbyggnadsteknik, Konstruktionsteknik

John Leander

Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan (KTH)

Mohammad al-Emrani

Chalmers, Arkitektur och samhällsbyggnadsteknik, Konstruktionsteknik

Buildings

20755309 (eISSN)

Vol. 13 2 364

Rekomendationer för HFMI-behandling av stålbroar - utveckling av dimensioneringsmetoder och tekniska kravspecifikationer

Trafikverket (TRV 2020-68167), 2020-07-01 -- 2022-06-30.

LifeExt-2-Implementation

VINNOVA (2021-01045), 2021-05-31 -- 2024-05-30.

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DOI

10.3390/buildings13020364

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