• Computers and Concrete
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• 제20권5호
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• pp.605-616
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• 2017

Concrete filled steel tubular (CFST) composite girder is a new type of structures for bridge constructions. The existing design codes cannot be used to predict the thermal stress in the CFST truss girder structures under solar radiation. This study is to develop the temperature gradient curves for predicting thermal stress of the structure based on field and laboratory monitoring data. An in-field testing had been carried out on Ganhaizi Bridge for over two months. Thermal couples were installed at the cross section of the CFST truss girder and the continuous data was collected every 30 minutes. A typical temperature gradient mode was then extracted by comparing temperature distributions at different times. To further verify the temperature gradient mode and investigate the evolution of temperature fields, an outdoor experiment was conducted on a 1:8 scale bridge model, which was installed with both thermal couples and strain gauges. The main factors including solar radiation and ambient temperature on the different positions were studied. Laboratory results were consistent with that from the in-field data and temperature gradient curves were obtained from the in-field and laboratory data. The relationship between the strain difference at top and bottom surfaces of the concrete deck and its corresponding temperature change was also obtained and a method based on curve fitting was proposed to predict the thermal strain under elevated temperature. The thermal stress model for CFST composite girder was derived. By the proposed model, the thermal stress was obtained from the temperature gradient curves. The results using the proposed model were agreed well with that by finite element modelling.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제47권1호
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• pp.59-73
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• 2013

The Xiaolan channel super large bridge is unique in style and with greatest span in the world with a total length of 7686.57 m. The main bridge with spans arranged as 100m+220m+100m is a combined structure composed of prestressed concrete V-shape rigid frame and concrete-filled steel tubular flexible arch. First of all, the author compiles APDL command flow program by using the unit birth-death technique and establishes simulation calculation model in the whole construction process. The creep characteristics of concrete are also taken into account. The force ratio of the suspender, arch and beam is discussed. The authors conduct studies on the three-plate webs's rule of shear stress distribution, the box girder's longitudinal bending normal stress on every construction stage, meanwhile the distribution law of longitudinal bending normal stress and transverse bending normal stress of completed bridge's box girder. Results show that, as a new combined bridge, it is featured by: Girder and arch resist forces together; Moment effects of the structure are mainly presented as compressed arch and tensioned girder; The bridge type brings the girder and arch on resisting forces into full play; Great in vertical stiffness and slender in appearance.

• 한국강구조학회 논문집
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• 제18권4호
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• pp.491-502
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• 2006

본 논문은 중력하중의 지배를 받는 CFT기둥-RC 무량판 접합부의 실물대 실험결과를 요약한 것이다. CFT구조는 여러 가지 구조및 시공상의 장점으로 인하여 국내 건설 현장에서 상대적으로 짧은 시간에 폭넓게 수용되고 있다. 주차장 용도로 주로 사용되는 지하층은 철근콘크리트 무량판으로 시공하여 경제성을 도모하는 것이 국내에서 일반적으로 요구되는 시공관행이다. 그러나 CFT기둥-R C 무량판 접합부의 효율적인 디테일은 아직 국내 외적으로 제시된 바가 없어서 이 분야의 연구가 매우 필요한 실정이다. 현장 시공시 경제성을 극대화할 수 있는 몇 가지 전략을 기초로 해서, 여러가지 접합 상세를 제안하였고 실험을 통하여 검증하엿다. 실험결과 본 연구에서 제시된 CFT기둥-RC 무량판 접합 상세의 펀칭강도 및 강성이 RC 무량판 접합부와 동등하거나 이를 상회하는 것을 확인할 수 있었다. CFT기둥-RC 무량판 접합부의 초기 탄성거동에서 펀칭파괴이후 휨철근의 국부 현수작용에 이르기까지의 모델링 방안을 제시하고 본 연구의 실험결과를 기초로 5개의 모델링 변수를 캘리브레이션하였다. 또한 무량판구조의 연쇄붕괴방지 설계에 본 연구의 결과를 응용하는 방안을 사례를 통하여 예시하였다.

• Steel and Composite Structures
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• 제11권5호
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• pp.423-434
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• 2011

Tongwamen Bridge is a critical link between Dongmen Island and the land in Shipu town, Zhejiang province, China. It is a 238 m span, half-through, concrete-filled steel tubular (CFST) X-type arch bridge. The width of the deck is only 10 m, yielding a width-to-span ratio of 1/23.8. The plane truss type section rib was adopted, which made of two CFST chords and web member system. The lateral stability is the key issue to this bridge. However, the existing researches on Tongwamen Bridge's lateral stability are all the deterministic structural analysis. In this paper, a new strategy for positioning sampling points of the response surface method (RSM), based on the composite method combining RSM with geometric method for structural reliability analysis, is employed to obtain the reliability index of lateral stability. In addition the correlated parameters were discussed in detail to find the major factors. According to the analysis results, increasing the stiff of lateral braces between the arch ribs and setting the proper inward-incline degree of the arch rib can enhance obviously the reliability of lateral stability. Moreover, the deck action of non-orienting force is less than the two factors above. The calculated results indicate that the arch ribs are safe enough to keep excellent stability, and it provides the foundation that the plane truss rib would be a competitive solution for a long-span, narrow, CFST arch bridge.