RESEARCH ARTICLE


Diaphragm Damage of Precast Concrete T-Shape Girder Bridge: Analysis and Strengthening



Yanwei Niu*, 1, 2, Bangjun Liu3, Yu Zhao1, Shuai Rong3, Pingming Huang1
1 School of Highway, Chang’an University, Xi’an 710064, China
2 Loess Region Key Laboratory of Transportation Ministry, Taiyuan 030000, China
3 TYLI Engineering Consulting (China) CO., LTD, Chongqing 404100, China


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Abstract

For advantage of economical and practical construction, precast T-shape girder bridge is commmonly used in China. In recent years, damage of diaphragm became a serious problem in operation and maintenance. In this study, based on finite element (FE) analysis of an actual bridge, stress distribution and failure process of diaphragm is demonstrated. The result shows that the stress of middle diaphragms started to beyond the limit firstly, under heavey load of 1.5 times equivalent Grade highway-I live load. Then, method of Double-K brace to strengthen the transveral connnection of the exist bridges is proposed and applied on background bridge. Based on the field test, tensile stress of diaphragms concrete reduced 69.4% when Double-K brace were adopted, and the lateral integrity of precast T-beam bridge could be improved effectively.

Keywords: Concrete bridge, T-shape girder, diaphragm, damage, strengthening.