Design Loading on Deeply Buried Box Culverts
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Abstract
The current American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) standard specifications for highway bridges and AASHTO LRFD bridge design specifications stipulate the computation of the design load on the box culvert primarily based on research by Marston and Spangler. Although this procedure may be applied conservatively for most ordinary culverts, an opportunity exists to evaluate a more realistic soil-structure interaction behavior based on modern finite element analyses of deeply buried concrete box culverts. The Duncan soil model, represented by hyperbolic stress–strain curves, has been used for properties of backfill and in situ soil. The backfill heights are varied from for the embankment condition and for the trench condition. An optimum combination of parameters has been identified for use in the imperfect trench installation method. The data from several hundred hypothetical models with various parameters under three typical installation methods, i.e., embankment, trench, and imperfect trench installation are characterized and quantified using regression analysis.
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Acknowledgment
Funding for this research project was provided by the Highway Research Center, Auburn University. This financial support is gratefully acknowledged.
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Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering
Volume 131 • Issue 1 • January 2005
Pages: 20 - 27
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Received: Nov 12, 2003
Accepted: May 10, 2004
Published online: Jan 1, 2005
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