Accurate stress analysis on steel box girder of long span suspension bridges based on multi-scale submodeling method

Advances in Structural Engineering

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 727-740

  Wang, Hao ^a,b   Li, Aiqun ^a   Hu, Ruomei ^a   Li, Jian ^b  

^a SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

finite element (FE) modeling; multi scale; steel box girder; submodeling method; suspension bridge

Indexed keywords

3-DIMENSIONAL; ACCURATE STRESS ANALYSIS; CABLE-SUPPORTED BRIDGES; COMPOSITE ACTION; DIFFERENT SCALE; FIELD TEST; FINITE ELEMENT MODELING; FINITE ELEMENTS; FLAT STEEL BOX GIRDER; FULL MODEL; GLOBAL ANALYSIS; LOCAL STRESS; LONG SPAN; LONG-SPAN BRIDGE; MESH SIZE; MULTISCALES; NUMERICAL RESULTS; STEEL BOX GIRDERS; STRESS LEVELS; SUB-MODELING METHOD; SUBMODELS; VEHICLE LOAD;

BEAMS AND GIRDERS; BOX GIRDER BRIDGES; CABLE STAYED BRIDGES; DYNAMIC LOADS; METAL ANALYSIS; STRESS ANALYSIS; SUSPENSION BRIDGES;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 77955205448     PISSN: 13694332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1260/1369-4332.13.4.727     Document Type: Article

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