TY  - CONF
SP  - 434
KW  - Automobiles; Axles; Damage detection; Steel bridges; Trucks
KW  -  Bridge details; Fatigue damage assessment; Heavy goods vehicles; Linear relationships; Nominal stress approaches; Truck traffic
KW  -  Fatigue damage
N1  - cited By 4; Conference of Structures Congress 2017 ; Conference Date: 6 April 2017 Through 8 April 2017; Conference Code:127394
Y1  - 2017///
A1  - Ayilara, A.Q.
A1  - Liew, M.S.
EP  - 445
ID  - scholars9307
SN  - 9780784480403
TI  - Impact of the Overloading of Heavy Goods Vehicles on the Fatigue Life of Steel Bridges
AV  - none
UR  - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85019148005&doi=10.1061%2f9780784480403.037&partnerID=40&md5=24a3982b94292255b7db79ff70b20103
N2  - This paper presents the results of an investigation into the impact of overloading of trucks on fatigue life of member details of an existing highway steel bridge. Different traffic scenarios were investigated by varying the percentage of overloading and number of overloaded heavy goods vehicles in the total truck traffic population using 2 axle, 3 axle and 4 axle trucks. The nominal stress approach was used for global fatigue damage assessment of member details of a bridge. The results show that heavy goods vehicles should not be overloaded beyond 20 of their maximum allowable GVW and the number of overloaded trucks within the traffic population should not exceed 10. Overloading beyond this limits, increases the rate of fatigue damage to steel details by at least 20 and more. It was observed that a linear relationship exists between increase in GVW of heavy goods vehicles and fatigue damage to bridge details. © 2017 ASCE.
PB  - American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
ER  -