A finite element model of a steel truss bridge validated with controlled load test data
(2024)
Advances in computational mechanics and applications : OES 2023.
In Structural integrity
29.
p.327-348
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- Kris Hectors (UGent) , Lien Saelens (UGent) , Jona Bracke, Hans De Backer (UGent) and Wim De Waele (UGent)
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- Abstract
- This work presents the development of a finite element model of a welded railway bridge constructed in 1955. This model will be used as the main tool for a structural health monitoring system of this ageing infrastructure. Such a system requires load monitoring for which the bridge was instrumented with fiber optic Bragg grating sensors spread over two longitudinal and two transverse girders. After the instrumentation, a series of passages using a locomotive with known axle loads and geometry was performed, during which strains were continuously recorded. A comparison between the experimental and numerical results showed excellent agreement for all sensors located remote from the bridge bearings. The comparison also showed that the influence of the bridge bearings on local deformations differs from the hypothesized design, especially at high load. It was found that deformation of structural elements is strongly constrained to the loaded sectors. The truss design efficiently transfers the loads on the longitudinal girders through the closest transverse girders onto the main trusses.
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Please use this url to cite or link to this publication: http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-01HPPE0K1DH3EWJ9K7NH0YC3JD
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- Hectors, Kris, et al. “A Finite Element Model of a Steel Truss Bridge Validated with Controlled Load Test Data.” Advances in Computational Mechanics and Applications : OES 2023, edited by Dimitrios Pavlou et al., vol. 29, Springer, 2024, pp. 327–48, doi:10.1007/978-3-031-49791-9_23.
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- Hectors, K., Saelens, L., Bracke, J., De Backer, H., & De Waele, W. (2024). A finite element model of a steel truss bridge validated with controlled load test data. In D. Pavlou, H. Adeli, J. A. F. O. Correia, N. Fantuzzi, G. C. Georgiou, K. E. Giljarhus, & Y. Sha (Eds.), Advances in computational mechanics and applications : OES 2023 (Vol. 29, pp. 327–348). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-49791-9_23
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- Hectors, Kris, Lien Saelens, Jona Bracke, Hans De Backer, and Wim De Waele. 2024. “A Finite Element Model of a Steel Truss Bridge Validated with Controlled Load Test Data.” In Advances in Computational Mechanics and Applications : OES 2023, edited by Dimitrios Pavlou, Hojjat Adeli, José A. F. O. Correia, Nicholas Fantuzzi, Georgios C. Georgiou, Knut Erik Giljarhus, and Yanyan Sha, 29:327–48. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-49791-9_23.
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- Hectors, Kris, Lien Saelens, Jona Bracke, Hans De Backer, and Wim De Waele. 2024. “A Finite Element Model of a Steel Truss Bridge Validated with Controlled Load Test Data.” In Advances in Computational Mechanics and Applications : OES 2023, ed by. Dimitrios Pavlou, Hojjat Adeli, José A. F. O. Correia, Nicholas Fantuzzi, Georgios C. Georgiou, Knut Erik Giljarhus, and Yanyan Sha, 29:327–348. Springer. doi:10.1007/978-3-031-49791-9_23.
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- 1.Hectors K, Saelens L, Bracke J, De Backer H, De Waele W. A finite element model of a steel truss bridge validated with controlled load test data. In: Pavlou D, Adeli H, Correia JAFO, Fantuzzi N, Georgiou GC, Giljarhus KE, et al., editors. Advances in computational mechanics and applications : OES 2023. Springer; 2024. p. 327–48.
- IEEE
- [1]K. Hectors, L. Saelens, J. Bracke, H. De Backer, and W. De Waele, “A finite element model of a steel truss bridge validated with controlled load test data,” in Advances in computational mechanics and applications : OES 2023, Aldemar Olympian Village, Greece, 2024, vol. 29, pp. 327–348.
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