Abstract:To explore the factors influencing the continuous rigid-frame mid-span long-term downwarp in the bridge engineering, the numerical simulation and calculation method is used to systematically evaluate the factors, such as longitudinal prestress loss, environmental humidity variation, deck paving overweight and over-cubic concrete in bottom slab, influencing the mid-span downwarp based on an unequal five-span rigid-frame continuous beam bridge. The results indicate that all these factors contribute to varying degrees of mid-span downwarp, and its caused deflection growth is mainly concentrated within the first ten years. The larger the span length, the more significant the influence of each parameter change on downwarp, in which the prestress loss is the most main factor causing the mid-span downwarp, and the impact of overweight in the leveling layer is the weakest. The parameter sensitivity ranking is prestress loss > over-cubic concrete in bottom slab concrete > environmental humidity.