Extending the application of integral frame abutment bridges in earthquake-prone areas by using novel isolators of recycled materials
| Autor: | Ilias Georgiadis, Stergios A. Mitoulis, Sotiris Argyroudis, Anastasia Palaiochorinou |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
| Předmět: |
Engineering
Serviceability (structure) business.industry Seismic loading Isolator 0211 other engineering and technologies Abutment 020101 civil engineering 02 engineering and technology Expansion joint Structural engineering Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology 0201 civil engineering Bridge deck Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous) Compressibility Geotechnical engineering Integral abutment business 021101 geological & geomatics engineering |
| Zdroj: | Earthquake Engineering & Structural Dynamics. 45:2283-2301 |
| ISSN: | 0098-8847 |
| DOI: | 10.1002/eqe.2760 |
| Popis: | Integral Abutment Bridges (IABs) are jointless structures without bearings or expansion joints, which require minimum or zero maintenance. The barrier to the application of longspan IABs is the interaction of the abutment with the backfill soil during the thermal expansion and contraction of the bridge deck, i.e. serviceability, or when the bridge is subjected to dynamic loads, such as earthquakes. The interaction of the bridge with the backfill leads to settlements and ratcheting of the soil behind the abutment and, as a result, the soil pressures acting on the abutment build-up in the long-term. This paper provides a solution for the aforementioned challenges, by introducing a novel isolator that is a compressible inclusion (CI) of reused tyre derived aggregates (TDA) placed between the bridge abutment and the backfill. The compressibility of typical tyre derived aggregates was measured by laboratory tests and the compressible inclusion was designed accordingly. The CI was then applied to a typical integral frame abutment model, which was subjected to static and dynamic loads representing in-service and seismic loads correspondingly. The response of both the conventional and the isolated abutment was assessed based on the settlements of the backfill, the soil pressures and the actions of the abutment. The study of the isolated abutment showed that the achieved decoupling of the abutment from the backfill soil results in significant reductions of the settlements of the backfill and of the pressures acting on the abutment. Hence, the proposed research can be of use for extending the length limits of integral frame bridges subjected to earthquake excitations |
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