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Steel and Composite Structures Volume 11, Number 5, October 2011 , pages 423-434 DOI: https://doi.org/10.12989/scs.2011.11.5.423 |
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Reliability analysis for lateral stabilityof tongwamen bridge |
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Pan Sheng-Shan,Shi Lei,Tan Yong-Gang and Zhang Zhe
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| Abstract | ||
| Tongwamen Bridge is a critical link between Dongmen Island and the land in Shipu town, Zhejiang province, China. It is a 238 m span, half-through, concrete-filled steel tubular (CFST) X-type arch bridge. The width of the deck is only 10 m, yielding a width-to-span ratio of 1/23.8. The plane truss type section rib was adopted, which made of two CFST chords and web member system. The lateral stability is the key issue to this bridge. However, the existing researches on Tongwamen Bridge\'s lateral stability are all the deterministic structural analysis. In this paper, a new strategy for positioning sampling points of the response surface method (RSM), based on the composite method combining RSM with geometric method for structural reliability analysis, is employed to obtain the reliability index of lateral stability. In addition the correlated parameters were discussed in detail to find the major factors. According to the analysis results, increasing the stiff of lateral braces between the arch ribs and setting the proper inward-incline degree of the arch rib can enhance obviously the reliability of lateral stability. Moreover, the deck action of non-orienting force is less than the two factors above. The calculated results indicate that the arch ribs are safe enough to keep excellent stability, and it provides the foundation that the plane truss rib would be a competitive solution for a long-span, narrow, CFST arch bridge. | ||
| Key Words | ||
| CFST bridge; stability; reliability ; response surface method (RSM), analysis | ||
| Address | ||
| Institute of Bridge Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, Liaoning 116023, China | ||