Abstract:Taking the 65 m+120 m+65 m continuous steel box girder of the upper bridge over the Pudong Canal on Zhoupu - Dengzhen Expressway (S3 - G1503) in Shanghai as the study object, the focus is on solving three key technologies of high web stability, force on the 4.75-m large cantilever and stress control of orthotropic bridge decks. A longitudinal finite-element model is used to optimize the 6-m high web according to the safety degree νmin![]()
≥ 1.35 of web buckling and the safety factor γ≥6.0 of horizontal stiffening ribs, and it is determined to set up four horizontal stiffening ribs. The internal force at the root of the cantilever is calculated using the Sack formula. The stress of the bridge deck is controlled by linearly superimposing the calculation results of the main beam system and the bridge deck system, and the stiffness of the bridge deck is controlled by the cover plate system with R≥20 m and Δ≤0.4 mm. The results show that the weakest plate in the web has?νmin![]()
= 1.81 and γ = 36.4. The combined stress at the root of the cantilever is 113 MPa. The superimposed tensile stress of the bridge deck is 228.3 MPa, and the compressive stress is 208.7 MPa, R=26.4 m and Δ=0.146 mm, all of which meet the specifications and can provide the technical reference for the design of similar long-span steel box beam bridges.