Structural Performance of In-Service Corrugated Steel Culvert under Vehicle Loading
Publication: Journal of Bridge Engineering
Volume 25, Issue 3
Abstract
Dynamic distributed fiber optic strain sensors were used, for the first time, to monitor the behavior of an in-service corrugated steel culvert with a span of 2.75 m and a skew angle of 45° under static and dynamic vehicle loading. These sensors enabled thrust and moment distributions to be measured around the circumference of the culvert. The peak thrusts were not found at the springlines as assumed by North American design codes. Additionally, the flexural stresses were of a similar magnitude to the hoop stresses, contrary to the assumption of ring compression used in many design codes. Dynamic truck loading resulted in higher thrusts and lower moments than did static loading. For this culvert, the deteriorated asphalt pavement had little influence on thrusts but did reduce the magnitude of the moments. Maximum thrust envelopes were developed using the distributed data, and demonstrated that positions near the crown experienced thrusts higher than those at the springlines. The peak measured strain was 9.3% of the yield strain, suggesting that the culvert had adequate live load capacity.
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Data Availability Statement
Some or all data, models, or code generated or used during the study are available from the corresponding author by request (distributed strain measurements in the static and dynamic tests).
Acknowledgments
The authors thank the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) of Canada, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, and the Government of Ontario for their financial support of this research. The authors appreciate the support of Tyler Lasko and the City of Kingston, who provided valuable assistance in identifying potential test sites and advised on traffic management during testing. The authors also acknowledge support from the Ministry of Transportation, Ontario (Eric Gatien of the Kingston office), who assisted with the load monitoring. Finally, the authors thank Graeme Boyd, Joshua Coghlan, Brian Westervelt, and Bryant Ward for assisting with the experiments.
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Journal of Bridge Engineering
Volume 25 • Issue 3 • March 2020
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Received: Apr 11, 2019
Accepted: Sep 5, 2019
Published online: Dec 28, 2019
Published in print: Mar 1, 2020
Discussion open until: May 28, 2020
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