This paper presents a detailed investigation in to fire resistance along with failure mode in continuous steel-concrete composite twin I-shaped bridge girders under different localized fire through considering fire severity and fire exposure positions namely; mid-span zone in one of the two span, hogging moment zone and side-support zone. A 3-D finite element (FE) model, built utilizing the computer program ANSYS, is used to track structural fire performance in a typical two span of continuous composite twin I-shaped bridge girders (fabricated with twin I-shaped plates supporting a concrete slab) dependent on thermomechanical coupled analysis. The model validation is undertook through comparison of temperature and deflection response attained from a scaled composite single I-shaped girder tested exposed to ISO834 fire. The numerical analysis results show that the developed model can be favorably used to analyze the behavior and failure mode of continuous steel-concrete composite twin I-shaped bridge girders during entire range of fire exposure. Fire severity and fire exposure positions present critical influence in to the fire resistance of continuous composite bridge girders. Fire exposure prevention on hogging moment zone can significantly extend failure time of continuous girders, and further hold back progressive structural collapse. Web buckling based failure criterion can be applicable to calculate fire resistance of realistic continuous girders under simultaneous structural loading together with localized fire. Continuous composite bridge girders subjected to localized fire present highly significant local deformation response in the fire exposed bridge girder span.


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    Title :

    Fire Performance of Continuous Steel-Concrete Composite Bridge Girders


    Additional title:

    KSCE J Civ Eng


    Contributors:
    Zhang, Gang (author) / Song, Chaojie (author) / Li, Xuyang (author) / He, Shuanhai (author) / Huang, Qiao (author)

    Published in:

    Publication date :

    2021-03-01


    Size :

    12 pages




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English





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