THE BEHAVIOUR UP TO COLLAPSE OF LOAD BEARING DIAPHRAGMS IN RECTANGULAR AND TRAPEZOIDAL STIFFENED STEEL BOX GIRDERS

THE PAPER DESCRIBES THE RESULTS OF TESTS ON NINE LOAD BEARING STIFFENED STEEL DIAPHRAGMS, SIX OF WHICH WERE RECTANGULAR AND THREE OF WHICH WERE TRAPEZOIDAL. THE EFFECTS ON ELASTIC AND ULTIMATE LOAD DIAPHRAGM BEHAVIOUR OF THE INITIAL IMPERFECTIONS, VERTICAL AND ROTATIONAL MISALIGNMENT OF THE BEARINGS TENSION FIELD ACTION IN THE WEBS AND THE TRANSVERSE STRESS CAUSED BY SLOPING WEBS, WERE STUDIED. A COMPARISON OF EXPERIMENTAL UNSERVICEABILITY AND COLLAPSE LOADS WITH THOSE PREDICTED, USING THE METHODS PROPOSED BY THE COMMITTEE OF INVESTIGATION INTO THE DESIGN AND ERECTION OF STEEL BOX GIRDER BRIDGES, IS GIVEN FOR SOME OF THE DIAPHRAGMS. IT IS CONCLUDED THAT THE ANALYSIS DOES NOT REFLECT ACCURATELY THE COMPLEX BEHAVIOUR OF SUCH DIAPHRAGMS AT HIGH LOADS, BUT NONE THE LESS PROVIDES A SAFE, CONSERVATIVE METHOD FOR CALCULATING ULTIMATE LOAD CAPACITY. (A)

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• Supplemental Notes:
  • Presented at a conference on Steel Box Girder Bridges.
• Corporate Authors:

  Institution of Civil Engineers

  One Great George Street, Westminster
  London,   United Kingdom  SW1P 3AA
• Authors:
  • DOWLING, P J
  • LOE, J A
  • Dean, J A
• Publication Date: 1973

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: Figures; Photos; References; Tables;
• Pagination: p. 95-117

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Beams; Bearing capacity; Bearings; Box girders; Bridges; Failure; Highway grades; Loads; Mechanical elasticity; Rotation; Shear strength; Slopes; Steel; Stiffener plates; Stresses; Structural diaphragms
• Old TRIS Terms: Diaphragms
• ITRD Terms: 3472: Beam; 3415: Bearing (bridge); 3085: Bearing capacity; 3474: Box girder; 3455: Bridge; 5912: Elasticity; 5520: Failure; 2806: Gradient; 5567: Load; 6406: Rotation; 4542: Steel; 3435: Stiffener (bridge); 5575: Stress (in material)
• Subject Areas: Bridges and other structures; Design; Highways; I24: Design of Bridges and Retaining Walls;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00080698
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport and Road Research Laboratory (TRRL)
• ISBN: 0 901948764
• Report/Paper Numbers: Conf Paper
• Files: ITRD, TRIS
• Created Date: Mar 26 1975 12:00AM