RECOMMENDED STANDARD PRACTICES FOR STRUCTURAL TESTING OF STEEL MODELS

A panel for standard practice for testing was set up in 1973 by the DOE-TRRL working group on long term research into steel box girder bridges. The working group recommended that the panel's report should be published as a TRRL report so that the panel's recommendations could be given a wider circulation among research organisations and others concerned with the testing of structural models representing steel box girder construction. The report discusses practical problems of testing and gives recommendations for good practice under the following headings: (I) material properties; (II) initial deformations and residual stresses; (III) loading procedures for structural tests; (IV) scale factor. /Author/TRRL/

• Corporate Authors:

  Transport and Road Research Laboratory (TRRL)

  Wokingham, Berkshire  United Kingdom 
• Publication Date: 1977

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 35 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Box girders; Deformation; Girder bridges; Loads; Materials; Mathematical models; Properties of materials; Residual stress; Steel; Steel structures; Stresses; Structural models; Teams; Tests; Weighing devices; Workshops
• Uncontrolled Terms: Loading; Models; Scale
• ITRD Terms: 3474: Box girder; 5595: Deformation; 5567: Load; 6205: Model (not math); 5925: Properties; 6204: Scale; 4542: Steel; 5575: Stress (in material); 6255: Test; 9090: Working group
• Subject Areas: Bridges and other structures; Design; Highways; Materials; I24: Design of Bridges and Retaining Walls;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00159774
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport and Road Research Laboratory (TRRL)
• Report/Paper Numbers: TRRL Supl Rpt SR 254Monograph
• Files: ITRD, TRIS
• Created Date: Dec 27 1977 12:00AM