Abstract:Mass concrete is prone to thermal cracking during the pouring process due to the accumulation of hydration heat. To avoid the spatial layout conflicts between cooling pipes and prestressed ducts, taking a specific large bridge on the newly constructed Zhuhai - Zhaoqing High-speed Railway as the research subject, a mixed temperature control scheme of Cooling-Duct (cooling pipe - prestressed tendon duct) is innovatively proposed, which is to use the prestressed ducts in the widened upper section of the 0# block as water-cooling channels, jointing the internal cooling pipes for collaborative temperature control. Based on MIDAS FEA NX 2022 software, a three-dimensional hydration heat finite element model is established to systematically analyze the influence of key parameters of cooling pipes and the amount of water flowing through prestressed ducts on temperature control effects, and the optimal parameters are determined accordingly. Compared with the no-temperature-control scheme, the use of mixed temperature control scheme can reduce the maximum core temperature by 22% and the principal tensile stress induced by temperature effects by 50%. The on-site temperature monitoring data from the bridge validate the accuracy of the finite element analysis model and confirm the effectiveness of the proposed Cooling-Duct mixed temperature control scheme.