Abstract:Due to the limit of special terrain in mountainous areas, the continuous rigid-frame bridge needs to be designed into an asymmetric structural form. To research its structural characteristics, the MIDAS Civil finite element software is used to establish a model to analyze the mechanical properties of a long-span asymmetric continuous rigid-frame bridge on a mountainous highway from factors such as internal forces, stresses and displacements, and to study the variation laws of various factors under the action of dead load and live load. Combined with the different distribution laws of internal forces and displacements of the asymmetric continuous rigid-frame bridge, the causes of diseases such as mid-span deflection, transverse cracks at the bottom of the box, and diagonal cracks in the web are analyzed. The method of an external prestressing reinforcement is proposed to balance the stresses at the upper and lower edges of the mid-span of the bridge and reduce the trend of vertical displacement changes, which can provide a reference for the reinforcement of similar bridges.