Fatigue and Static Tests of Two Welded Plate Girders

Fatigue and Static Tests of Two Welded Plate Girders

Fatigue and Static Tests of Two Welded Plate Girders

Standard
Format: PDF
Published year: 1970
Organization: WRC
Language: English
Pages: 18
ISEN: WRC Bulletin 155

Summary

This report describes the testing of two full-size slender-web welded plate girders for the purpose of ascertaining the acceptability of proposed design recommendations for bridge girders under repeated loading.The girders were 32 ft. 6 in. and 35 ft. 3 in.long with 1/4 in. thick webs, resulting in web slenderness rati's of 200 and 380. Panel aspect rati's ranged from 1.0 to 1.50. ASTM A36 material was used.These girders were subjected to repeated loading to 2.2 and 4.5 million cycles, respectively, without development of fatigue cracks and were subsequently tested under static loads to determine the adequacy of the stiffeners. It is concluded that the proposed recommendations are sufficiently conservative for ordinary bridge plate girders.
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