Abstract
For the fatigue verification or determination of the re-maining fatigue life of steel highway bridges, based on the Euroco-de, in general the simple fatigue load model ELM3, consisting of one vehicle only, is used and the effects of the complex traffic be-haviour are considered by damage equivalence factors l. However, the application is limited to span length and length of the influence lines L > 10 m.In this paper appropriate damage equivalence factors l are presen-ted for orthotropic steels decks of highway bridges. Based on com-prehensive calculations on representative orthotropic bridge decks with the complex fatigue load model ELM4, consisting of five vehi-cle types, suitable damage equivalence factors l for the simple fati-gue load model ELM3 are developed. They are focused on relevant details for fatigue verification
| Translated title of the contribution | Damage equivalence factors for the fatigue verification of orthotropic steel decks of highway bridges |
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| Original language | German |
| Pages (from-to) | 416-426 |
| Journal | Der Bauingenieur |
| Volume | 92 |
| Issue number | 10 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2017 |