Mathematical Modeling of Loading Histories for Steel Beams or Girder Highway Bridges

Miller, D.; Munse, W.H.

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Title

Mathematical Modeling of Loading Histories for Steel Beams or Girder Highway Bridges

Author(s)

• Miller, D.
• Munse, W.H.

Issue Date

1983-03

Keyword(s)

• highway bridges
• Distribution functions
• Fatigue

Abstract

In this study the nature of actual random traffic stress histories in steel beam or girder highway bridges has been investigated. Quantitative field test results have been used to develop mathematical models that can be used to represent the stress histories for such bridges. The beta distribution function has been found to be an effective mathematical model for the actual stress-range histograms and has been used to establish random stress factors and can be used in fatigue design to account for the random nature of loadings in highway bridges.

Publisher

University of Illinois Engineering Experiment Station. College of Engineering. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Series/Report Name or Number

Civil Engineering Studies SRS-508

Type of Resource

text

Language

en

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Sponsor(s)/Grant Number(s)

• State of Illinois. Department of Transportation
• U.S. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration

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