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An independent distortional analysis method of thin-walled multicell box girders

  • Park, Nam-Hoi (Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Korea University) ;
  • Kang, Young-Jong (Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Korea University) ;
  • Kim, Hee-Joong (Department of Civil Engineering, Keimyung University)
  • Received : 2004.10.08
  • Accepted : 2005.07.29
  • Published : 2005.10.20

Abstract

When a thin-walled multicell box girder is subjected to an eccentric load, the distortion becomes an important global response in addition to flexure and torsion. The three global responses appear in a combined form when a conventional shell element is used thus it is not an easy task to examine the three global responses separately. This study is to propose an analysis method using conventional shell element in which the three global responses can be separately decomposed. The force decomposition method which was designed for a single-cell box girder by Nakai and Yoo is expanded herein to multicell box girders. The eccentric load is decomposed in the expanded method into flexural, torsional, and multimode distortional forces by using the force equilibrium. From the force decomposition, the combined global responses of multicell box girders can be resolved into separate responses and the distortional response which is of primary concern herein can be obtained separately. It is shown from a series of extensive comparative studies using three box girder bridge models that the expanded method produces accurate decomposed results. Noting that the separate consideration of individual global response is of paramount importance for optimized multicell box girder design, it can be said that the proposed expanded method is extremely useful for practicing engineers.

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