Hello, I am designing a concrete plinth/pedestal for a bridge guided bearing which will only take shear forces.
I am trying to design the reinforcement with a Strut and Tie model based on the fairly recent Eurocode 2 Part 4 (EN1992-4), as well as guidance from the ACI318 standard and an article...
Thanks all, in case you're interested I decided to run another model allowing for a +/- 0.5mm gap from the guided bearings (from their record drawings), with "zero-gap" elements in Strand7, and although it improves the situation some of the bearings still theoretically fail just on self-weight +...
Hi all,
I am currently assessing an existing composite steel girder-concrete deck bridge due to anticipated ground movements causing the abutments to tilt inwards.
The bridge has a span of approximately 39m and a skew of approximately 34 degrees - a fairly standard bridge. East end is the...
Thank you for your reply Mohandes2018. I thought the Kirchoff vs Reissner-Mindlin difference was in shear deformation out of plane and not in-plane, so that's why I didn't try it. In the meantime, I found out that this deformation was only happening in the load combination 1DL + 1E + 0.3LL which...
Hey everyone,
I am currently working on my master's degree thesis model of a masonry building with concrete slabs (portuguese "placa" building) so the slabs could be modeled as diaphragms, even though I decided to use thick shells to model it because of the different dead load cases. My problem...
