TY - GEN
T1 - Modelling of the proof load test on viaduct De Beek
AU - Lantsoght, E. O.L.
AU - Boer, A.
AU - van der Veen, C.
AU - Hordijk, D. A.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 Taylor & Francis Group, London.
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - In a proof load test, a load corresponding to the factored live load is applied to a bridge, to directly demonstrate that a bridge fulfils the code requirements. The case of viaduct De Beek, a four-span reinforced concrete slab bridge that did not fulfil the requirements for bending moment after an inspection survey is studied. The middle spans, located above highway lanes, which could not be tested in the field, are the critical spans of this structure. Therefore, the observations from the field are used to check the finite element model, and improve the rating of the critical middle spans. The proposed method can be applied and further extended for proof load tests where the access to the site and the critical position of the viaduct is limited. This improvement will allow for an optimized combination of field testing and modelling, reducing the costs of field tests.
AB - In a proof load test, a load corresponding to the factored live load is applied to a bridge, to directly demonstrate that a bridge fulfils the code requirements. The case of viaduct De Beek, a four-span reinforced concrete slab bridge that did not fulfil the requirements for bending moment after an inspection survey is studied. The middle spans, located above highway lanes, which could not be tested in the field, are the critical spans of this structure. Therefore, the observations from the field are used to check the finite element model, and improve the rating of the critical middle spans. The proposed method can be applied and further extended for proof load tests where the access to the site and the critical position of the viaduct is limited. This improvement will allow for an optimized combination of field testing and modelling, reducing the costs of field tests.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85061325777
U2 - 10.1201/9781315182964-65
DO - 10.1201/9781315182964-65
M3 - Contribución a la conferencia
AN - SCOPUS:85061325777
SN - 9781138741171
T3 - Computational Modelling of Concrete Structures - Proceedings of the conference on Computational Modelling of Concrete and Concrete Structures, EURO-C 2018
SP - 535
EP - 544
BT - Computational Modelling of Concrete Structures - Proceedings of the conference on Computational Modelling of Concrete and Concrete Structures, EURO-C 2018
A2 - Pichler, Bernhard
A2 - Rots, Jan G.
A2 - Meschke, Günther
PB - CRC Press/Balkema
T2 - Conference on Computational Modelling of Concrete and Concrete Structures, EURO-C 2018
Y2 - 26 February 2018 through 1 March 2018
ER -