Abstract:<p>The existing railway steel bridges are often required to carry an increasing volume of traffic, higher seep and heavier trains, so China bridge owners pay more attention to the actual fatigue life and service safety of such structures. Recently twenty three long fatigue cracks were found at the low flange connection plates between end cross-frames and main girders for each span of Wei River Bridge, a railway bolted and welded steel plate girder bridge. In current paper the fatigue damage initiation an… Show more
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