The Girder’s Transverse Static Characteristics of the Bilateral Steel Box Girder Self-Anchored Suspension Bridge under the Action of a Vehicle

Fatigue Performance of Orthotropic Steel Decks in Super-Wide Steel Box Girder Considering Transverse Distribution of Vehicle Load

“…Nowadays, in order to meet the increasing traffic demand, the steel box girders with larger width would be designed, in which more traffic lanes could be set. Many super-wide steel box girders have been used in the real bridge, such as Qingshan Yangtze River Bridge (girder width: 48 m) [13], Yunlongwan Bridge (girder width: 48.5 m) [14], Linggang Bridge (girder width: 63.9 m) [15], New San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge (girder width: 78.74 m) [16], etc. However, the spatial effects (e.g., shear-lag effect, complex deformation effect) of the super-wide steel box girders are quite obvious [17,18], and the effects of wheel loads on the welded details are different in each lane [19], which means the influence of vehicle transverse location should be analyzed carefully.…”