GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF STATIC AND DYNAMIC TESTING OF INSTRUMENTED STEEL CULVERT

Corrugated steel culverts are increasingly being used in road and railway projects as alternative solutions to concrete bridges and culverts. The construction period is short, and the structures have both technical and economical advantages. This abstract describes static and dynamic testing of an instrumented corrugated steel culvert with span 2.99 m and height 2.40 m. The corrugation is 159x50 mm and the steel thickness is 3.75 mm. Several full scale tests have been performed in the field to validate the long-term performance and great load bearing capacity of these strucutres, but not very many structures have been tested in controlled conditions in a test facility like the test in Zmigrod. Earth pressure, steel stress and deformations were recorded during the static and dynamic testing. The testing were performed with height of cover ranging from 1.0 m and down to 0.3 m. The results show that there are small deformations and stresses. Full scale testing in the field in Poland on instrumented structures with railway loading have confirmed this. The results shows that the corrugated steel structures are safe with height of cover down to 0.3 m for both railways and roads. (A) For the covering abstract see ITRD E104741.

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• Corporate Authors:

  ROAD AND BRIDGE RESEARCH INSTITUTE

  UL JAGIELLONSKA 80
  WARSAW,   Poland  03-301
• Authors:
  • Vaslestad, J
  • KORUSIEWICZ, L
  • Wysokowski, A
• Conference:
  • PROCEEDINGS OF THE DURABLE AND SAFE ROAD PAVEMENTS, V INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE, HELD KIELCE, POLAND, 11-12 MAY 1999. VOLUME 2
• Publication Date: 1999

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: References;
• Pagination: p. 215-21

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Culverts; Pipe; Steel; Tests
• Uncontrolled Terms: Full scale
• ITRD Terms: 3360: Culvert; 6227: Full scale; 3361: Pipe; 4542: Steel; 6255: Test
• Subject Areas: Bridges and other structures;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00792979
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport Research Laboratory
• ISBN: 83-907304-7-2
• Files: ITRD
• Created Date: May 31 2000 12:00AM