Fatigue Reliability Reassessment Applications: State-of-the-Art Paper

Byers, William G.; Marley, Mark J.; Mohammadi, Jamshid; Nielsen, Richard J.; Sarkani, Shahram

doi:10.1061/(asce)0733-9445(1997)123:3(277)

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“…Virlogeux [1992] and Gu et al [1999], by neglecting the vehicle effects, conducted buffeting induced fatigue analysis on two cable-stayed bridges and the fatigue life was found to be much longer than the design life of the bridges. In addition, many works have been carried out on the vehicle-bridge dynamic analysis or dynamic analysis of long-span bridges under wind, railway and highway loadings [Byers et al, 1997;Guo and Xu, 2001;Cai and Chen, 2004a;Xu et al, 2009;Chen and Wu, 2010;Chen et al, 2011aChen et al, , 2011b. However, most of these studies focus on dynamic displacements and accelerations by using a simple finite element model of the bridge without including structural details [Chen et al, 2011a].…”

Section: Performance Evaluation Of Vehicle and Wind-induced Bridge Famentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In addition, the framework should have the capacity to include multiple random variables for the dynamic loads in a bridge's life cycle for the vehicle-bridge-wind dynamic system, for instance, road profiles, vehicle speeds, and wind velocities and directions, etc. Certain retrofitting actions can be performed based on the results from the fatigue reliability analysis, for instance, repairing the structure, replacing the structure or changing the operation of the structure [Byers et al, 1997].…”

Section: Performance Evaluation Of Vehicle and Wind-induced Bridge Famentioning

confidence: 99%

“…For variable amplitude stress cycles, the Palmgren-Miner damage law, which is also called the linear fatigue damage rule (LDR), is often used [Miner, 1945;Byers et al, 1997]:…”

Section: Fatigue Damage Accumulationsmentioning

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Framework of Wind–vehicle–bridge Interaction Analysis and Its Applications

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Under strong winds, bridges may exhibit large dynamic responses. Wind may also endanger the safety of moving vehicles on the roadways as well as on bridges. For regular aerodynamic study of long-span bridges, traffic loads are not typically considered, assuming that bridges will be closed to traffic at high wind speeds. Therefore, bridges are usually tested in wind tunnels or analyzed numerically without considering moving vehicles on them. However, there are numerous possible scenarios under which vehicles may still be on the bridge when higher wind speeds occur. These scenarios include unexpected increase in hurricane forward speed or intensity, evacuation traffic gridlock, accidents/stalled vehicles or rainfall flooding blocking the road ahead, etc. Wind, together with vehicles, will also cause serviceability and bridge fatigue damage issues. The present study will present the framework of wind-vehicle-bridge interaction analysis and its applications, developed in the last decade by the authors' group, focused on the vehicle and bridge safety issues. It consists of the following five parts: (1) A three dimensional finite element analysis framework considering the interaction of wind, bridge and vehicles; (2) experimental facilities development and studies for both static and aerodynamic tests of bridge section models and vehicles; (3) Computation fluid dynamic (CFD) prediction of loading on vehicles; (4) performance evaluation of vehicle safety and bridge fatigue; and (5) bridge vibration mitigations. Case study will also be presented and future research needs are discussed.

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Section: Performance Evaluation Of Vehicle and Wind-induced Bridge Famentioning

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Section: Performance Evaluation Of Vehicle and Wind-induced Bridge Famentioning

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Framework of Wind–vehicle–bridge Interaction Analysis and Its Applications

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“…Among historical metal bridges, riveted structures are the most common; the role of riveted connections in the fatigue assessment is documented by several researches, such as, in Bruhwiler et al [8], Kulak [9], Akesson and Edlund [10], Di Battista et al [11], Bursi et al [12], Matar and Greiner [13], Boulent et al [14], Albrecht and Lenwari [15], Kühn et al [16], Albrecht and Lenwari [17], and Brühwiler et al [18]. Fatigue is one of the most common causes of failure in riveted bridges, as highlighted by the ASCE Committee on Fatigue and Fracture Reliability [19] and confirmed by Byers et al [20]. Increasing loads on existing riveted bridges and the fact that these bridges were not explicitly designed against fatigueraised questions regarding their remaining fatigue life.…”

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Fatigue Damage Estimation in Existing Railway Steel Bridges by Detailed Loading History Analysis

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Pellegrino

Modena

2012

ISRN Civil Engineering

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Fatigue life estimation of metal historical bridges is a key issue for managing cost-effective decisions regarding rehabilitation or replacement of existing infrastructure. Because of increasing service loads and speeds, this type of assessment method is becoming relevant. Hence there is a need to estimate how long these structures could remain in service. In this paper a method to estimate fatigue damage in existing steel railway bridges by detailed loading history analysis is presented. The procedure is based on the assumption that failure probability is a function of the number of predicted future trains and the probability of failure is related to the probability of reaching the critical crack length.

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“…Realising the importance of estimation of fatigue-induced damage in concrete structures, Shah et al [9] have proposed an approach for nondestructively monitoring of concrete structures. A detailed review of fatigue reliability assessment procedures and their applications, especially to steel structures (namely, rail road bridges, highway bridges, and offshore structures) are given in Byers et al [10,11].…”

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Stochastic modelling of crackwidth in reinforced concrete beams subjected to fatigue loading

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2004

Engineering Structures

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Fatigue Reliability Reassessment Applications: State-of-the-Art Paper

Cited by 53 publications

References 19 publications

Framework of Wind–vehicle–bridge Interaction Analysis and Its Applications

Framework of Wind–vehicle–bridge Interaction Analysis and Its Applications

Fatigue Damage Estimation in Existing Railway Steel Bridges by Detailed Loading History Analysis

Stochastic modelling of crackwidth in reinforced concrete beams subjected to fatigue loading

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