The American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) Load and Resistance Factor Design Bridge Design Specifications define fracture critical members (FCMs) as steel primary members, which are subject to tension and whose failure would probably cause the collapse of a portion of or the entire bridge. FCMs not only lead to additional material procurement and fabrication quality requirements, but bridges with FCMs need to meet the requirements of special mandatory bi-annual hands-on inspections in additions to the routine planned bridge inspections per the National Bridge Inspection Standards. The special mandatory inspections for FCMs are a considerable budgetary constraint for asset owners while still not providing definite safety proofs within the period in between the inspections. Designation of FCMs should be carefully scrutinized in a new bridge constructed with high-quality materials and well-designed details. In 2012, the Federal Highway Administration published a memorandum introducing system redundant members (SRMs), which are identified through refined analysis and exempted from the inspection requirements for FCMs. A new AASHTO Guide Specification released in 2018 outlines a detailed procedure for the reclassification of FCMs as SRMs. This paper summarizes the analyses and results of a detailed FEA performed for a newly designed steel arch bridge. The analyses considered potential failure scenarios at the edge girder of the steel arch bridge and demonstrated the available redundancy in the system to distribute the loads by satisfying the performance criteria set forth in the AASHTO Guide Specification. Reclassification of the FCMs as SRMs could help the asset owner to reallocate their strained resources more efficiently.


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    Titel :

    Reclassifying Fracture Critical Members (Non-Redundant Steel Tension Members) to System Redundant Members in a Steel Arch Bridge


    Weitere Titelangaben:

    Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board


    Beteiligte:
    Mosavi, Ardalan (Autor:in) / Yuan, Hao (Autor:in) / Tatarsky, Marc (Autor:in) / Carter, Matt (Autor:in)


    Erscheinungsdatum :

    12.12.2022




    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)


    Format :

    Elektronische Ressource


    Sprache :

    Englisch



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