Force Characteristic Analysis of Different Steel Deck Pavement under Temperature Load Coupling Situation

Abstract

Abstract In order to investigate the force characteristic of different steel deck pavement under extreme temperature and load coupling situation, we established the three dimensional extreme high temperature and extreme low temperature field of simple supported beam bridge, the paving structure were double layered SMA, double layered epoxy concrete, SMA+GA, using material elastic modulus changing with temperature. Analysis indicated that the maximum value of high temperature normal stress occurred in the epoxy upper layer pavement, the maximum value of shear stress occurred in the epoxy lower layer pavement, the maximum value of high temperature strain occurred in the upper layer of double layered SMA pavement. The maximum value of low temperature stress occurred in the SMA+GA lower layer pavement, the maximum value of low temperature strain occurred in the SMA+GA upper layer pavement, the maximum value of shear strain occurred in the SMA lower layer pavement. The maximum value of high temperature stress usually occurred in the bottom of pavement layer, maximum strain usually occurred on top of pavement layer. The maximum value of low temperature shear stress and shear strain usually occurred in the bottom of pavement layer, normal strain occurred on top of pavement layer. The stress difference between the upper and lower layers in SMA+GA pavement structure is very large which adversely affected the structural force.