Abstract:With the gradual increase in requirements for bridge aesthetics and low environmental impact during construction, the steel-concrete composite beams have been widely applied in urban bridge construction. Due to the two-stage stress characteristics of steel-concrete composite beams, the different construction schemes have a significant impact on the structural stress of the completed bridge. Taking the Shanghai-Hangzhou Highway Overpass Bridge as an engineering case, the 58-m steel-concrete composite beam is simulated and analyzed for different construction schemes through the finite element software MIDAS Civil. The effects of different temporary support layouts, construction sequences and beam-splicing schemes during lowering on the structural stress and deflection are compared and analyzed. The results show that arranging the temporary supports within the scope of bridge span can significantly improve the steel beam stress and completed bridge deflection. The tensile stress at the top edge of the steel beam under basic combinations can be reduced by approximately 35%, and the deflection of the completed bridge is reduced by about 33%. Completing the construction of bridge deck appurtenances before removing temporary supports has limited improvement on structural stress and deflection. The scheme of splicing first then lowering on temporary supports is slightly superior to the scheme of lowering first then splicing in terms of structural stress and deflection.