Abstract:With the development of economic construction, the width of bridges is increasing. The wide-width steel box girder is widely used in various engineering practices. To explore the stress mode of such structures, taking a 2×40 m span wide-width steel box girder as an example, a 3D numerical analysis model is established. Based on the loading condition of a typical construction, the design accuracies of single-girder method, beam grillage method and shell element method are verified. On this basis, the stress characteristics of wide-width steel box girder are analyzed and summarized. Combined with the finite element analysis results and the standards at home and abroad, the stress mode and the simplified computation method of the cross beam of the wide-width steel box girder are specially discussed. The design proposal for the wide-width steel box girder is put forward, which can be referred for the design of the similar structures.