Abstract:Penetrating fatigue cracks pose a serious threat to the safe service of steel bridge decks. Taking the steel bridge deck of an expressway cable-stayed bridge as the research object, selecting the connection part of the longitudinal rib roof as the typical fatigue detail, and based on the solid finite element software, a finite element analysis model of fatigue segment containing a crack body sub-model is established. And the numerical simulation analysis is carried out on the penetrating fatigue cracks. The calculation results show that the connection part of the longitudinal rib roof is mainly subjected to transverse tensile stress perpendicular to the crack surface. The penetrating fatigue cracks mainly exhibit the characteristics of open-type fatigue cracks, and the peak equivalent stress intensity factor at the crack front is close to 225.0 N/mm3/2. Compared with the initial cracks, the expansion capability is significantly enhanced.