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Lecture 8.5.2A : Advanced Design of Box Girders


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1. INTRODUCTION

2. GLOBAL ANALYSIS METHODS

3. GRILLAGE

3.1 General

3.2 Grillage Modelling for Box Girder Bridges

3.3 Longitudinal Grillage Elements

3.4 Transverse Grillage Elements

3.5 Torsional Rigidities

3.6 Skew Bridges

3.7 Interpretation of the Output of a Grillage Analysis

4. ORTHOTROPIC PLATE ANALYSIS

5. FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS

6. FOLDED PLATE ANALYSIS

7. TORSIONAL WARPING

8. CROSS-SECTION DISTORTION

9. SHEAR LAG

10. DIAPHRAGMS

11. CONCLUDING SUMMARY

12. REFERENCE

13. ADDITIONAL READING