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Seismic Risk Analysis of Track-on-Steel Plate Girder Railway Bridges  

Park, Joo Nam (한국철도기술연구원)
Choi, Eun Soo (홍익대학교 건설환경공학과)
Kim, Sung Il (한국철도기술연구원)
Cho, Sung Cheol (한국철도기술연구원, 한양대학교)
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Journal of Korean Society of Steel Construction / v.21, no.1, 2009 , pp. 45-53 More about this Journal
Abstract
More than 40% of railway bridges on the conventional lines in Korea consist of track-on-steel plate girder (TOSPG) bridges. This type of bridge is typically designed without considering seismic loadings, as most of them were built before 1970. The seismic performance of this particular type of bridge could be upgraded through various seismic retrofit schemes, and seismic risk assessment could play a key role in decision-making on the level of the seismic retrofit. This study performed a seismic risk assessment of TOSPG bridges in Korea. The seismic damage of several crucial components of TOSPG bridges--fixed bearings, free bearings, and piers--were probabilistically estimated, and their seismic fragility curves were developed. The probability that the components would exceed their predefined limit states was also calculated by combining the fragility curves and the seismic hazard function. The analysis showed that the piers of TOSPG bridges, which are made of plain concrete without rebars, have relatively low risk against seismic loadings in Korea. This is because the mass of the superstructures of TOSPG bridges is relatively small, and hence, the seismic loading being transferred to the piers is minimal. The line-type bearings typically used for TOSPG bridges, however, are exposed to a degree of seismic risk. Among the bearings, the probability of the free-end bearings and the fixed-end bearings exceeding the slight damage state in 50 years was found to be 12.78% and 4.23%, respectively. The gap between these probability values lessened towards more serious damage states. This study could effectively provide an engineering background for decision-making activities on the seismic retrofit of railway bridges.
Keywords
railway bridge; steel plate girder bridge; seismic risk analysis; seismic fragility curves;
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