Monitoring and Evaluation of Overturning Resistance of Box Girder Bridges Based on Time-Varying Reliability Analysis
Publication: Journal of Performance of Constructed Facilities
Volume 34, Issue 1
Abstract
In recent years, overturning accidents of box girder bridges have occurred frequently, causing widespread concern among researchers. From the perspective of bridge structure monitoring, this paper presents two technical routes for evaluating the risk of potential overturning risk of a bridge: (1) traffic loads monitoring based on an anti-overturning stability coefficient and (2) structural response monitoring based on the control of a bearing’s rotational angle. For the second route, a simple and feasible monitoring scheme is presented depending on the structural response—displacement of measured points on both sides of bearings. Then, a method to assess bridge anti-overturning reliability is proposed. The influence of aging of rubber material on the rotation performance of a bearing is further considered. Finally, the study applied the method described above to an anti-overturning analysis of the Northeast Ramp Bridge at Tongji Road in Shanghai, which demonstrated the method’s feasibility and effectiveness.
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Acknowledgments
This work was supported by the National Key R&D Program of China (2017YFF0205605); the Shanghai Urban Construction Design Research Institute project, Bridge Safe Operation Big Data Acquisition Technology and Structure Monitoring System Research; and the Ministry of Transport Construction Science and Technology project, Medium-Small Span Bridge Structure Network Level Safety Monitoring and Evaluation.
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Received: Dec 12, 2018
Accepted: Jun 4, 2019
Published online: Nov 28, 2019
Published in print: Feb 1, 2020
Discussion open until: Apr 28, 2020
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