Vehicle Collision Impact Response of Bridge Pier Strengthened with Composites
Publication: Practice Periodical on Structural Design and Construction
Volume 25, Issue 4
Abstract
Shortening delays for immediate access to essential public infrastructures when subjected to rare extreme loadings are critical to promptly normalize socioeconomic activities. Public infrastructure networks contain numbers of bridges prone to accidental vehicular impact loading. This paper investigates the response of as-built and carbon fiber reinforced polymers (CFRP)-strengthened bridge piers struck with lightweight and medium-weight vehicles at a city speed limit of , a highway speed limit of , and a police chase speed of . The present study involves the development of three-dimensional (3D) complex nonlinear finite element analysis models of a 13.4 m 3-lane-wide and 7.9 m high AASHTO-LRDF-designed single hammerhead bridge pier. Two publicly available vehicle finite element models representing lightweight and medium-weight trucks were used in the study. An explicit 3D nonlinear finite element software program LS-DYNA was used to simulate vehicle pier collisions. The complete vehicle and single hammerhead bridge pier finite element model had a total of 140,577 elements and finite element analysis was performed at the Ohio Supercomputer Center. Full-scale experimental head-on collision data reported in literature and principles of energy conservation were used to validate the accuracy of the proposed finite element analysis models. Finite element analysis results revealed that CFRP composites contained impact-induced localized damages and peak dynamic impact force surpassed AASHTO design impact force.
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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. [Pier finite element model and vehicle pier crash finite element analysis results are available from the author whereas vehicle finite element models are available in the public domain from FHWA/NHTSA National Crash Analysis Center (NCAC) https://www-nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov/database/veh/.
Acknowledgments
This work was supported in part by an allocation of computing time from the Ohio Supercomputer Center.
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Received: Jul 5, 2019
Accepted: Apr 22, 2020
Published online: Jun 24, 2020
Published in print: Nov 1, 2020
Discussion open until: Nov 24, 2020
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