Highway Bridge Assessment for Dynamic Interaction with Critical Vehicles

Daniel Cantero, Eugene J. O'Brien, Arturo Gonzalez, Bernard Enright, Cillian Rowley

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Abstract

Dynamic vehicle-bridge interaction is often considered for the most common classes of vehicle such as the 5-axle articulated truck. However, the dynamic response of bridges to this type of trucks is quite different to the response to the vehicles more likely to feature in maximum-in-lifetime traffic loading events. This paper focuses on large (>100 tonne) cranes and crane-type vehicles that have been recorded at Weigh-in-Motion sites in Europe. This paper analyses the total bending moment due to these vehicles on short to medium span bridges and compare them to 5- axle articulated trucks. To account for the variability in vehicle characteristics, more than 40,000 vehicle-bridge interaction events are computed using Monte Carlo simulation.
Original languageEnglish
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2009
EventICOSSAR 2009 - Osaka, Japan
Duration: 1 Jan 2009 → …

Conference

ConferenceICOSSAR 2009
Country/TerritoryJapan
CityOsaka
Period1/01/09 → …
Other10th International Conference on Safety, Reliability and Risk of Structures

Keywords

  • Dynamic vehicle-bridge interaction
  • 5-axle articulated truck
  • maximum-in-lifetime traffic loading events
  • large cranes
  • crane-type vehicles
  • Weigh-in-Motion sites
  • total bending moment
  • short to medium span bridges
  • Monte Carlo simulation

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