This thesis is a product of the U.S. Army Corp of Engineer's desire to develop a more accurate procedure for estimating the load capacity of an in-service T-beam bridge.
A bridge type that is a stumbling block for U.S. Army field engineers due to the unknown amount and placement of the flexural reinforcement in the T-beam girder cross-sections.
Personnel from the U.S. Army Corp of Engineer's Waterways Experiment Station in cooperation with personnel from Virginia Tech conceived a procedure that is potentially more accurate, can be quickly executed in the field, and is relatively easy to use by field engineers. In general, the procedure provides a method for transition between the quantity of flexural reinforcement in a reinforced concrete T-beam and the member's actual moment of inertia.
Specifically, the goal of this thesis is to evaluate the accuracy of selected, effective moment of inertia models as a component in the proposed analysis procedure. The accuracy of the selected models is evaluated with test data generated from a testing program detailed herein, which load tested full-scale reinforced concrete T-beams. The test specimens were subjected to a closely-spaced, tandem-axle load configuration, a load configuration typical of military equipment. / Master of Science
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:VTETD/oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/35754 |
| Date | 06 January 2003 |
| Creators | Wickline, Joseph Edward |
| Contributors | Civil Engineering, Cousins, Thomas E., Roberts-Wollmann, Carin L., Easterling, William Samuel |
| Publisher | Virginia Tech |
| Source Sets | Virginia Tech Theses and Dissertation |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
| Format | application/pdf, application/pdf |
| Rights | In Copyright, http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ |
| Relation | Thesis.pdf, Appendix.pdf |
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