Abstract:For a steel-concrete combined composite continuous box girder bridge, the scheme of using the steel-ultrahigh performance concrete (UHPC) composite beam in the middle of the span and using the low ribbed slab for the bridge deck is proposed to lighten the dead weight. A UHPC layer is covered on the surface of steel-concrete combined segment area so as to form the ultrahigh performance composite girder. In order to specially study the mechanical behavior of steel-concrete combined segment, the large-scale overall model of continuous box girder bridge is established by using the MIDAS/CIVIL bridge finite element calculation software to determine the most unfavorable stress conditions and the specific internal force numerical values of the steel - concrete combined segment. Then, ABAQUS is used to establish a small-scale local finite element model of the steel-concrete combined segment for the fine analysis so as to reveal the stress distribution of steel, ordinary concrete (NC) and UHPC in this area. The calculation results show that the stiffness of the steel-concrete combined segment of the bridge can be smoothly transited, the stress levels of steel, NC and UHPC are lower, which has the good safety reserves and can meet the stress requirements of the bridge.