Abstract:Soil-structure interaction (SSI) is always one of the hotspots and difficulties in the evaluation of anti-seismic performance of bridges under seismic excitation. It takes a long time to calculate the structural model due to considering the influence of soil. In order to improve the efficiency, the consistent multi-scale modeling method is adopted. The studied parts are built as solid elements and the other parts are built as beam elements. The appropriate method is used between the elements for the interface connection in order to ensure the deformation coordination between the macro and fine elements. The correctness of the method is verified by analyzing a bridge. On this basis, a three-span continuous beam bridge model is established based on the multi-scale modeling method, and its elastic-plastic time history analysis is carried out. The response results of bridge model with SSI and without SSI under seismic excitation are compared and analyzed. The influence of SSI effect on the seismic performance of bridges is studied. The results show that the multi-scale modeling method can effectively improve the calculation efficiency under the premise of ensuring the calculation accuracy. The SSI effect can effectively reduce the seismic performance requirements of bridges. Therefore, this should be taken into account in design.