thin-walled hollow steel columns, either circular or box shaped, are commonly used as piers in bridges. recent earthquakes, e.g. hyogoken-nanbu or kobe 1995, on the other hand have shown that these columns are vulnerable to damage when subjected to earthquake loading. this paper presents a new innovative thin-walled hollow steel column fabricated of corrugated plates, “thin-walled steel columns...

Abstract The non-navigable hole bridge in the east and west flooding area of Shenzhen-Zhongshan Bridge 110 m continuous steel box girder system, each with 2 holes girders spanning Lingdingyang sea anchor, which is affected by anchor subsidiary structure, its installation difficult. In view characteristics project, three solutions were proposed: large section lifting, small incremental launching...

Cantilevers are a part of our life, they everywhere: bridg–es, building’s balconies, traffic signs, car parking shades even the aircraft’s wings. The long cantilevers buildings always present as big challenge to structural engineers in their practice life. behavior these depends on several factors, such rigidity slab, columns or walls, span continuity... etc. But real dilemma lies economical ch...

Recently, the serious problems facing heavy industries such as the increase in the average age of employees, shortage of skilled workers and environmental problems in the workplace are being addressed. The bridge panel fabrication system we have developed is such an approach to solve these problems. It consists of two parallel box girder panel sub-assembly lines, one exclusively for web panels ...

In order to address the difficulty in determining seismic damage probability of continuous girder bridges under construction, vulnerability analysis method construction state is proposed this study. Firstly, taking a long-span prestressed concrete composite box bridge with corrugated steel webs (OSW) as an example, finite element models (FEMs) dynamic calculation different phases cantilever are...

The influence of composite girders on the modified buckling factor for columns was investigated in both braced and unbraced frames. girders' end conditions were represented as rigid hinged . Furthermore, based proposed stiffness parameter, derived formulation follows same assumptions standard effective length (K-factor). Moreover, suggested equations frames obtained using slope-deflection metho...

A new analytical method to predict the torsional capacity and behavior of R.C multi-cell box girders strengthened with carbon fiber reinforced polymer (CFRP) sheets is presented. Modification was done on the Softened Truss Model (STM) in the proposed method; the concrete torsional problem is solved by combining the equilibrium conditions, compatibility conditions and constitutive laws of materi...

In this paper, the authors used finite element method to investigate longitudinal and transverse shear lag effects effect of aspect ratio on double-chamber cantilever concrete box girder under uniform distributed load. The results show that root section is positive lag, mid-span negative lag. direction, changes appear in girder. at fixed end significantly affected by ratio, degree different par...