Probabilistic Fatigue Life Prediction of Bridge Cables Based on Multiscaling and Mesoscopic Fracture Mechanics
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Abstract
Fatigue fracture of bridge stay-cables is usually a multiscale process as the crack grows from micro-scale to macro-scale. Such a process, however, is highly uncertain. In order to make a rational prediction of the residual life of bridge cables, a probabilistic fatigue approach is proposed, based on a comprehensive vehicle load model, finite element analysis and multiscaling and mesoscopic fracture mechanics. Uncertainties in both material properties and external loads are considered. The proposed method is demonstrated through the fatigue life prediction of cables of the Runyang Cable-Stayed Bridge in China, and it is found that cables along the bridge spans may have significantly different fatigue lives, and due to the variability, some of them may have shorter lives than those as expected from the design.
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OpenAlex topics: Mechanical stress and fatigue analysis · Fatigue and fracture mechanics · Concrete Corrosion and Durability
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Key Laboratory of Concrete and Prestressed Concrete Structure, Ministry of Education, Southeast University, 2 Sipailou, Nanjing 210096, China
School of Civil Engineering, Southeast University, 2 Sipailou, Nanjing 210096, China
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