Working state of ECC link slabs used in continuous bridge decks

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Abstract

The working states of three types of engineered cementitious composites (ECC) link slabs subjected to vertical loads are investigated based on the structural working state theory. The scattered measured strains are firstly expanded into spatially continuous data using the response simulating interpolation method without loss of original information. The generalized strain energy density (GSED) is derived from these data and the sum of which are used to characterize the working states of ECC link slabs. Thereafter, the Mann-Kendall (M-K) criterion is introduced to detect the working state leaps during the whole loading procedure and two critical mutations are revealed: The yielding point and the initial structural failure point. Finally, the working state modes, the characteristics of strain fields and the development of internal forces are employed to verify the working state mutations around the revealed critical points. The GSED-based analysis of structural working state is an innovative method to discern some unseen working behavior characteristics which are ignored by traditional structural analysis theory. The work reported herein has a further eect in improving the structural design codes for ECC link slabs.

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Zhong, J., Shen, J., Wang, W., Shi, J., Yang, X., & Zhou, G. (2019). Working state of ECC link slabs used in continuous bridge decks. Applied Sciences (Switzerland), 9(21). https://doi.org/10.3390/app9214667

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