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Effects of Impact Loads on Local Dynamic Behavior of Orthotropic Steel Bridge Decks

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To investigate the local dynamic behavior of orthotropic steel bridge decks under impact loads, this paper proposed a type of combined plate-beam element for analysis of trapezoidal stiffened plate and a type of 8-nodes solid-plate element for analysis of pavement. Besides, vehicle wheel loads are supposed to be triangular loads for convenience. Then, a model experiment was conducted to verify the accuracy of the proposed approach. Finally, River-sea-through channel of Hong Kong–Zhuhai–Macao Bridge is taken as an engineering case for computation analysis. The results are compared with those from FE software ANSYS. It shows that: first, the proposed approach is both accurate and efficient; second, bridge deck pavement has the effect of both self-weight and rigidity, which requires the bridge deck pavement be considered when analyzing the mechanical properties of bridge deck structure.

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The authors gratefully acknowledge the support of National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 51408228) and State key laboratory of traction power, Southwest Jiaotong University (No. TPL1802), Pearl River Science and Technology Nova Program of Guangzhou (No. 201906010009) and Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, South China University of Technology (No. 2019MS118).

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    Niujing Ma & Ronghui Wang

  2. State Key Laboratory of Traction Power, Chengdu, 610031, China

    Niujing Ma

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Ma, N., Wang, R. Effects of Impact Loads on Local Dynamic Behavior of Orthotropic Steel Bridge Decks. Int J Steel Struct 21, 132–141 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13296-020-00421-6

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