MECHANICAL BEHAVIOR ANALYSIS OF COMPOSITE DECK FLOOR OF ARCH BRIDGE WITH STEEL GIRDER

A steel-concrete composite deck has been used in acrh bridges recently. The mechanism of a composite deck is complex, and was affected by the factors of setting connections between concrete decks and steel girder or not, setting tied bars or not, different deck concrete casting sequences etc. In this paper, mechanical behaviors of a composite deck floor of an arch bridge with steel girders are analyzed by a spatial finite element model. The research results show that whether setting connections between concrete decks and a steel girder or not slightly affects the total mechanical behavior of a deck floor but influents the local stress of the deck; whether setting tied bar affects the deck floor mechanical property greatly and the deck floor stress depends on the tension force of tied bars heavily; as to arch bridge with a composite deck floor, the mechanical behavior of deck floors with casting deck concrete by one time is superior to that of deck floors with casting deck concrete by several times.