Deflection monitoring of cast in-situ balanced cantilever prestressed concrete box girder bridge

Monitoring of deflection in the construction of a long span segmental balanced cantilever prestressed concrete box girder bridge is very important because bridge deflection will affect the final bridge level and to avoid large level discrepancies during the joining of two cantilevers. This study pre...

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Main Author: Azman Hambali, Mohd. Khairul
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Language:English
Published: 2012
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spelling my-utm-ep.333262017-09-20T01:02:38Z Deflection monitoring of cast in-situ balanced cantilever prestressed concrete box girder bridge 2012-12 Azman Hambali, Mohd. Khairul TG Bridge engineering Monitoring of deflection in the construction of a long span segmental balanced cantilever prestressed concrete box girder bridge is very important because bridge deflection will affect the final bridge level and to avoid large level discrepancies during the joining of two cantilevers. This study presents a comparison of actual and design short-term deflection considering the effect of creep for a four span balanced cantilever prestressed concrete box girder bridge. Each span consists of 26 segments and the deflection data were obtained using leveling instruments. The actual concrete strength of the segments were also recorded. Analysis using these data and the local creep coefficient were carried out using ADAPT-ABI software. Comparisons between actual and design deflections indicate that they are similar for the first four segments of each span with very small values. Substantial values of deflection begin to develop at the fifth segment and the critical value occurred at the middle of the cantilever span. It is also observed that the deflection values are inversely proportional to the concrete strength but directly proportional to the creep coefficient. As an extension of this study, further investigations can be carried out on long term deflection of concrete box girder bridge, behaviour of box girder bridge due to temperature difference, effect of varying element thicknesses and early loading. 2012-12 Thesis http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/33326/ http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/33326/1/MohdKhairulAzmanMFKA2012.pdf application/pdf en public masters Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Faculty of Civil Engineering Faculty of Civil Engineering
institution Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
collection UTM Institutional Repository
language English
topic TG Bridge engineering
spellingShingle TG Bridge engineering
Azman Hambali, Mohd. Khairul
Deflection monitoring of cast in-situ balanced cantilever prestressed concrete box girder bridge
description Monitoring of deflection in the construction of a long span segmental balanced cantilever prestressed concrete box girder bridge is very important because bridge deflection will affect the final bridge level and to avoid large level discrepancies during the joining of two cantilevers. This study presents a comparison of actual and design short-term deflection considering the effect of creep for a four span balanced cantilever prestressed concrete box girder bridge. Each span consists of 26 segments and the deflection data were obtained using leveling instruments. The actual concrete strength of the segments were also recorded. Analysis using these data and the local creep coefficient were carried out using ADAPT-ABI software. Comparisons between actual and design deflections indicate that they are similar for the first four segments of each span with very small values. Substantial values of deflection begin to develop at the fifth segment and the critical value occurred at the middle of the cantilever span. It is also observed that the deflection values are inversely proportional to the concrete strength but directly proportional to the creep coefficient. As an extension of this study, further investigations can be carried out on long term deflection of concrete box girder bridge, behaviour of box girder bridge due to temperature difference, effect of varying element thicknesses and early loading.
format Thesis
qualification_level Master's degree
author Azman Hambali, Mohd. Khairul
author_facet Azman Hambali, Mohd. Khairul
author_sort Azman Hambali, Mohd. Khairul
title Deflection monitoring of cast in-situ balanced cantilever prestressed concrete box girder bridge
title_short Deflection monitoring of cast in-situ balanced cantilever prestressed concrete box girder bridge
title_full Deflection monitoring of cast in-situ balanced cantilever prestressed concrete box girder bridge
title_fullStr Deflection monitoring of cast in-situ balanced cantilever prestressed concrete box girder bridge
title_full_unstemmed Deflection monitoring of cast in-situ balanced cantilever prestressed concrete box girder bridge
title_sort deflection monitoring of cast in-situ balanced cantilever prestressed concrete box girder bridge
granting_institution Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Faculty of Civil Engineering
granting_department Faculty of Civil Engineering
publishDate 2012
url http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/33326/1/MohdKhairulAzmanMFKA2012.pdf
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