EVALUATION OF LOCALISED LOADING ON SUSPENSION BRIDGES

The deck girder moments and suspender-cable tensions caused by the application of localised loading to a conventionally articulated suspension bridge with a slender deck girder are expressed in a generalised and normalised form. Comparison with the analogous solutions for localised loading on cable-stayed bridges shows considerable similarity in practical numerical results, despite the disparity between the algebraic forms resulting from the differences of the basic mechanics of the suspension-cable and straight-stay structural systems. (A)

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• Corporate Authors:

  Thomas Telford Limited

  London,   United Kingdom 
• Authors:
  • WYATT, T A
• Publication Date: 2004-6

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: References;
• Pagination: p. 55-63
• Serial:
  • PROCEEDINGS OF THE INSTITUTION OF CIVIL ENGINEERS. BRIDGE ENGINEERING
  • Volume: 157
  • Issue Number: BE2
  • Publisher: Thomas Telford Limited
  • ISSN: 1478-4629

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Beams; Bridge decks; Cable stayed bridges; Evaluation and assessment; Loads; Mathematical models; Motion; Suspension bridges
• ITRD Terms: 3472: Beam; 3482: Bridge deck; 9020: Evaluation (assessment); 5567: Load; 6473: Mathematical model; 5483: Movement; 3417: Stayed girder bridge; 3476: Suspension bridge
• Subject Areas: Planning and Forecasting;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00979686
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport Research Laboratory
• Files: ITRD
• Created Date: Oct 6 2004 12:00AM