experimental campaign on the full scale frp motorway bridge

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We present the main results of an experimental campaign conducted at the ELSA laboratory of the Joint Research Centre on a hybrid-composite, fibre-reinforced, motorway bridge beam. The 14 metre long specimen is an identical prototype of the actual beams installed on a real (now functional) highway interchange roundabout in Madrid, Spain. The bridge ensemble consists of two 3×14 metre length, dual lane, two-way carriages capable of carrying fully laden heavy truck stock. The scope of the test campaign was to assess the design and ultimate capacity of the primary bridge beam and the participatory reinforced concrete deck system. The test set-up was designed to induce serviceability and limit loads in an isostatic manner, reflecting the primary load-bearing conditions within the context of the bridge as a whole (four parallel sets of three spans of simply supported beams connected by a reinforced concrete deck). In order to monitor the complex behaviour, the specimen was extensively instrumented with nearly two hundred channels – of which over one-hundred strain gauges – and stereoscopic photogrammetry with which to monitor in-(and out)-of-plane global displacements and buckling. The bridge beam-deck deflections during the deck grouting and subsequent curing were monitored for four weeks, after which the test campaign proper began with experimental modal analysis, followed by a comprehensive cyclic test campaign to confirm the serviceability and ultimate limit state of the bridge. The experiments were concluded with a test up to failure.

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EXPERIMENTAL CAMPAIGN ON A FULL SCALE FRP MOTORWAY BRIDGE

Martin Poljanšek a

Eugenio Gutiérrez a

Philippe Capéran a Carlo Paulotto b Enrique Navarro Lera b

a ELSA, IPSC, Joint Research Centre, European Commission b Acciona Infraestructuras Correspondence: martin.poljansek@jrc.ec.europa.eu

Three simply supported spans

10m + 14m + 10m

20.40m wide box-girder deck

M-111 motorway

Barajas int. airport

Madrid

The Specimen

The Loading set-up

In the European Laboratory for Structural Assessment

JRC – European Commission

In the European Laboratory for Structural Assessment

JRC – European Commission

The Instrumentation Channel #

Strain gauge 108 Displacement t. 32

Inclinometer 9 Load cell 10

Test up to the Ultimate Limit State

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Load

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Average stiffness = 38.4 kN/mm Max. Load = 1500 kN Max. Midpoint Disp. = 38.95 mm

Test up to the Ultimate Limit State

Field of view of the optical stereo-rig

Displacement map at the peaks of the load

Test up to Failure

2657kN @ 78.98mm

Linear elastic response at the ULS

Failure at 1.76 x ULS

Shear buckling of the webs

Rupture of the bottom FRP face

TOWARDS EU-WIDE BRIDGE DESIGN GUIDELINES AND TECHNOLOGY USING ADVANCED COMPOSITES

- workshop -

Joint Research Centre, Ispra 6,7 December 2011

To ascertain the status and perspectives for the use of

fibre-reinforced composites in civil engineering, with

particular emphasis to bridges.

Contact: eugenio.gutierrez@jrc.ec.europa.eu martin.poljansek@jrc.ec.europa.eu

http://elsa.jrc.ec.europa.eu/events.php?id=7

Thank you!

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