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Rationalization of the empirical design method for reinforced bridge deck slab
Abstract The empirical design of reinforced concrete bridge deck slabs of girder bridges, referred to as only ‘deck slabs,’ is the most efficient design method because it recognizes the inherent arching action that exists in these slabs. Because of the arching action, the deck slabs fail in a punching shear mode under much higher wheel loads than the loads that would make them fail in bending; it is noted that failure in bending assumes the absence of the arching action. The Canadian Highway Bridge Design Code provides specifications for the empirical design of deck slabs. As the term ‘empirical design’ implies, this method is based on experimental evidence rather than analytical methods. A computer program, PUNCH, based on an analytical method, was developed to analyze the failure loads of externally restrained deck slabs, also referred to as ‘steel-free deck slabs,’ which do not contain embedded reinforcement for strength. In this program, it is assumed that the transverse confinement to deck slabs is provided by steel straps lying outside the deck slabs. Thus, this program only models the behavior of externally reinforced bridge deck slabs accurately. For internally reinforced bridge deck slabs, the stress-deformation behavior of steel in concrete is investigated in experimental evidence on concrete prisms, each with an embedded central steel bar, which has confirmed that when these prisms are subjected to tensile forces through the steel bars, the axial stiffness of the composite prisms is initially much larger than that of the bare steel bar, and decreases nonlinearly with the increase in the magnitude of tensile force. A reinforced concrete prism can thus be conceptually replaced by a hypothetical equivalent steel bar, the diameter of which is larger than that of the bare steel bar and decreases with the increase in the magnitude of the tensile force. This thesis attempts to modify the program PUNCH to analyze deck slabs with embedded steel bars by replacing the bars with hypothetical equivalent steel bars ...
Rationalization of the empirical design method for reinforced bridge deck slab
Abstract The empirical design of reinforced concrete bridge deck slabs of girder bridges, referred to as only ‘deck slabs,’ is the most efficient design method because it recognizes the inherent arching action that exists in these slabs. Because of the arching action, the deck slabs fail in a punching shear mode under much higher wheel loads than the loads that would make them fail in bending; it is noted that failure in bending assumes the absence of the arching action. The Canadian Highway Bridge Design Code provides specifications for the empirical design of deck slabs. As the term ‘empirical design’ implies, this method is based on experimental evidence rather than analytical methods. A computer program, PUNCH, based on an analytical method, was developed to analyze the failure loads of externally restrained deck slabs, also referred to as ‘steel-free deck slabs,’ which do not contain embedded reinforcement for strength. In this program, it is assumed that the transverse confinement to deck slabs is provided by steel straps lying outside the deck slabs. Thus, this program only models the behavior of externally reinforced bridge deck slabs accurately. For internally reinforced bridge deck slabs, the stress-deformation behavior of steel in concrete is investigated in experimental evidence on concrete prisms, each with an embedded central steel bar, which has confirmed that when these prisms are subjected to tensile forces through the steel bars, the axial stiffness of the composite prisms is initially much larger than that of the bare steel bar, and decreases nonlinearly with the increase in the magnitude of tensile force. A reinforced concrete prism can thus be conceptually replaced by a hypothetical equivalent steel bar, the diameter of which is larger than that of the bare steel bar and decreases with the increase in the magnitude of the tensile force. This thesis attempts to modify the program PUNCH to analyze deck slabs with embedded steel bars by replacing the bars with hypothetical equivalent steel bars ...
Rationalization of the empirical design method for reinforced bridge deck slab
2024-05-02
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