Extension of POA based on Fiber Element to Girder Bridge
- 301 Room, 85, Deshengmenwai Street, Xicheng District (100088) Beijing (China)
- School of Civil Engineering, Southwest Jiaotong University, (61003) Chengdu (China)
Because of its main advantage of simplicity, practicality, lower computational cost and relative good results Pushover analysis (POA) has become an effective analytical tool during the last decade for the seismic assessment of buildings. But such work on bridges has been very limited. Hence, the aim of this study is to adapt POA for nonlinear seismic analysis of girder bridges, and investigate its applicability in the case of an existing river-spanning approach bridge. To three different types bridge models the nonlinear POA, which adopts fiber model nonlinear beam-column element based on flexibility approach, with return period about 2500 years is carried out. It can be concluded that POA is applicable for bridges, with some shortcomings associated with the method in general, even when it is applied for buildings. Finally the applicable selection for monitoring point and lateral load pattern is suggested according to dynamic characteristic of girder bridges.
- OSTI ID:
- 21361991
- Journal Information:
- AIP Conference Proceedings, Vol. 1233, Issue 1; Conference: 2. international symposium on computational mechanics; 12. international conference on the enhancement and promotion of computational methods in engineering and science, Hong Kong (Hong Kong); Hong Kong (Hong Kong), 30 Nov - 3 Dec 2009; 30 Nov - 3 Dec 2009; Other Information: DOI: 10.1063/1.3452295; (c) 2010 American Institute of Physics; ISSN 0094-243X
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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