Study on the accurate calculation method for the distribution of structural residual bearing capacity during the demolition process of the Clearwater River Bridge

Changzhu Wang1, Jixiang Chai1, Hongtu Xu1, Zhiquan Liu 2
1CCCC Third Highway Engineering CO., LTD., Beijing, 050000, China
2Bridgee Engineering Consulting of Shanghai, Shanghai, 200084, China

Abstract

Bridges as the basic transportation facilities in the national daily life, with the development of road transportation, the number of urban viaducts and cross-sea bridges grows year by year, and the role of bridges in the transportation network becomes more and more significant. The article selects the Qingshuihe Bridge demolition project as the research object, and designs the Qingshuihe Bridge demolition implementation program based on the engineering characteristics. For the mechanical property changes and structural residual bearing capacity calculation during the demolition process of Qingshuihe Bridge, this paper constructs a finite element model of Qingshuihe Bridge based on ANSYS software, and analyzes the structural reliability of Qingshuihe Bridge after the demolition project by combining with structural reliability indexes. Under the same mid-span displacement condition, the cracking load error between the finite element simulation values and the experimental values is relatively small, and its fluctuation range is between 2.12%% and 6.58%. In the first 5 years after the demolition of the bridge section, the residual load capacity of the bridge structure increased from 5.23*103kN to 5.51*103kN. The reliability index value of the bridge over the Qingshui River changed relatively slowly in the early stage, and began to decline gradually in the later stage, and the greater the strength of the steel girders the higher time-varying reliability index of the bridge over the Qingshui River. In this paper, the design of the Qingshui River bridge demolition implementation program has a strong feasibility, in order to ensure that the Qingshui River bridge structural residual bearing capacity on the basis of the completion of the demolition of part of the bridge abutment, and can guarantee the safety of the bridge operation.

Keywords: residual bearing capacity, ANSYS software, finite element model, structural reliability