Analysis and Predictive Evaluation of Mechanical Properties of Steel Anchor Box for High-Speed-Railway Cable-Stayed Bridge

Abstract

As the stress amplitude in the anchorage zone of cable-stayed bridges vary considerably, it is essential to study the fatigue-load-bearing capacity of the anchorage structures of cable-stayed-bridge girders. In this study, the mechanical properties and force-transmission mechanism of a built-in double-fixed steel anchor box, as well as the influence of the geometric design parameters of the main pressure plates and support plates on its stress performance, were studied. A PSO-BP built-in double-fixed steel anchor box mechanical-performance-prediction-and-evaluation system was established, with the geometric design parameters of the important plates of the main body of the anchor box as the input variables and the mechanical properties of the main stress-transmitting welds of the steel anchor box as the output-evaluation variables. The results were as follows: the cable force was mainly transmitted in the form of shear force through the welds between the support plate and the web of the main beam; the transmission ratio of the four main welds was generally maintained at about 23%, and the stress distribution of each plate was relatively uniform, with most of the stresses in the range of 10~50 MPa. The shear-stress-inhomogeneity coefficient of the transmission weld was sensitive to the changes in the thickness of the support plate and the pressure plate, and the transmission ratio of the main weld was sensitive to the changes in the thickness and length of the support plate. The PSO-BP-based mechanical-performance-prediction-and-evaluation system can be used to explore the intrinsic relationship between the designed cable force, important plate-geometry parameters, and the force performance of steel anchor boxes during the iterative process, and to generate more accurate prediction and evaluation values.