Highway Bridge Assessment for Dynamic Interaction with Critical Vehicles

Authors

Daniel Cantero, University College Dublin
Eugene J. OBrien, University College Dublin
Arturo González, University College Dublin
Bernard Enright, Technological University DublinFollow
Cillian Rowley, Buro Happold Ltd., London

Document Type

Conference Paper

Rights

Available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike 4.0 International Licence

Disciplines

Civil engineering

Publication Details

10th International Conference on Safety, Reliability and Risk of Structures, ICOSSAR 2009 Osaka, Japan

Abstract

Dynamic vehicle-bridge interaction is often considered for the most common classes of vehicle such as the 5-axle articulated truck. However, the dynamic response of bridges to this type of trucks is quite different to the response to the vehicles more likely to feature in maximum-in-lifetime traffic loading events. This paper focuses on large (>100 tonne) cranes and crane-type vehicles that have been recorded at Weigh-in-Motion sites in Europe. This paper analyses the total bending moment due to these vehicles on short to medium span bridges and compare them to 5- axle articulated trucks. To account for the variability in vehicle characteristics, more than 40,000 vehicle-bridge interaction events are computed using Monte Carlo simulation.

DOI

https://doi.org/10.21427/D7PJ7K

Recommended Citation

Cantero, D., OBrien, E.J., González, A., Enright, B. and Rowley, C. (2009), ‘Highway Bridge Assessment for Dynamic Interaction with Critical Vehicles’. In: Furuta, Frangopol & Shinozuka eds. 10th International Conference on Safety, Reliability and Risk of Structures, ICOSSAR 2009 Osaka, Japan, pp.3104-3109.