• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제31권6호
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• pp.585-599
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• 2023

Field monitoring techniques offer an attractive approach for understanding bridge behavior under in-service loads. However, the investigations on bridge behavior under high-speed train load using field monitoring data are limited. The focus of this study is to explore the structural behavior of an in-service long-span steel truss arch bridge based on field monitoring data. First, the natural frequencies of the structure, as well as the train driving frequencies, are extracted. Then, the train-induced bearing displacement and structural strain are explored to identify the effects of train loads and bearings. Subsequently, a sensitivity analysis is performed for the impact factor of strain responses with respect to the train speed, train weight, and temperature to identify the fundamental issues affecting these responses. Additionally, a similar sensitivity analysis is conducted for the peak acceleration. The results indicate that the friction force in bearings provides residual deformations when two consecutive trains are in opposite directions. In addition, the impact factor and peak acceleration are primarily affected by train speed, particularly near train speeds that result in the resonance of the bridge response. The results can provide additional insight into the behavior of the long-span steel truss bridges under in-service high-speed train loads.

• Structural Monitoring and Maintenance
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• 제5권1호
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• pp.79-92
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• 2018

The evaluation theory of reliability, availability, maintainability and safety (RAMS) as a mature theory of state evaluation in the railway engineering, can be well used to the evaluation, management, and maintenance of complicated structure like the long-span bridge structures on the high-speed railway. Taking a typical steel-truss arch bridge on the Beijing-Shanghai high-speed railway, the Nanjing Dashengguan Yangtze River Bridge, this paper developed a new method of state evaluation for the existing steel-truss arch high-speed railway bridge. The evaluation framework of serving state for the bridge structure is presented based on the RAMS theory. According to the failure-risk, safety/availability, maintenance of bridge members, the state evaluation method of each monitoring item is presented. The weights of the performance items and the monitoring items in all evaluation levels are obtained using the analytic hierarchy process. Finally, the comprehensive serving state of bridge structure is hierarchical evaluated.

• Steel and Composite Structures
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• 제11권5호
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• pp.423-434
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• 2011

Tongwamen Bridge is a critical link between Dongmen Island and the land in Shipu town, Zhejiang province, China. It is a 238 m span, half-through, concrete-filled steel tubular (CFST) X-type arch bridge. The width of the deck is only 10 m, yielding a width-to-span ratio of 1/23.8. The plane truss type section rib was adopted, which made of two CFST chords and web member system. The lateral stability is the key issue to this bridge. However, the existing researches on Tongwamen Bridge's lateral stability are all the deterministic structural analysis. In this paper, a new strategy for positioning sampling points of the response surface method (RSM), based on the composite method combining RSM with geometric method for structural reliability analysis, is employed to obtain the reliability index of lateral stability. In addition the correlated parameters were discussed in detail to find the major factors. According to the analysis results, increasing the stiff of lateral braces between the arch ribs and setting the proper inward-incline degree of the arch rib can enhance obviously the reliability of lateral stability. Moreover, the deck action of non-orienting force is less than the two factors above. The calculated results indicate that the arch ribs are safe enough to keep excellent stability, and it provides the foundation that the plane truss rib would be a competitive solution for a long-span, narrow, CFST arch bridge.

• 한국강구조학회 논문집
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• 제20권5호
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• pp.609-616
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• 2008

국가경제력 향상과 함께 바다와 섬에 대한 관심이 높아지면서 육지와 섬, 섬과 섬을 연결하는 해상 장대교량이 많이 건설되고 있다. 장대교량은 현수교, 사장교, 아치교, 트러스교 등으로 대변할 수 있는데 그 중에서도 사장교는 주탑(Pylon)과 케이블(Cable), 보강형(Stiffened Girder)이 조화를 이루면서 외관이 아름다워 매력적인 교량형식의 하나로 최근 많이 계획되고 있다. 장력측정은 케이블에 설치한 가속도 센서로부터 케이블의 고유진동수 변화를 이용하는 간접법인 진동법을 적용하였다. 본 연구에서는 댐퍼 설치 케이블의 유효길이 산정식을 제안하였는데 이는 케이블의 유효길이 변화를 실측치와 해석값을 비교하여 분석한 것으로 기존의 유효길이 산정방법인 댐퍼와 정착단간의 순간격에 의한 것은 최종 케이블 장력값 추정에 있어서 신뢰도가 떨어짐을 확인할 수 있었다. 그러므로 향후 유지관리 단계에서는 본 연구에서 제안한 케이블의 유효길이 산정식을 활용하여 장력을 정확하게 파악하는 것이 케이블의 재긴장 및 교체시기 결정 등에도 합리적인 의사결정 자료로 사용될 수 있을 것이다.