Research on Steel Shell of a Road Bridge Made of Corrugated Plates during Backfilling |
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| Authors: | Z. “Zee” Manko D. Beben |
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| Affiliation: | 1Professor, Dept. of Civil and Structural Engineering, Bridge Division, Civil Engineering Institute, Wroclaw Technical Univ., Wybrzeze Wyspianskiego No. 27, 50-370 Wroclaw, Poland; formerly, Visiting Professor, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Washington State Univ., Pullman, WA 99164; Civil & Environmental Engineering Dept., Florida International Univ., Miami, FL 33199 (corresponding author). E-mail: zbigniew.manko@pwr.wroc.pl
2MSc, PhD Student, at the Cracow Technical Univ., formerly, Associate to the Division of Bridge Structures, Civil Engineering Dept., Opole Technical Univ., Ozimska Street No. 75A, 45-368 Opole, Poland. E-mail: dbeben@wp.pl
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| Abstract: | This paper presents the results and conclusions of the research conducted on a backfilled shell structure made of Super Cor SC-56B corrugated steel plates of a road bridge located in Gim?n, Sweden. The conclusions drawn from the tests can be helpful mostly for the assessment of the behavior of this type of steel–soil bridge structure under the load of backfilling. In consideration of an even more frequent application of this type of structure for small and middle-sized road and rail bridges, conclusions from the conducted research can be generalized to the whole class of such structural solutions. |
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| Keywords: | Backfills Corrugating Field investigations Layered soils Bridges, highway Bridges, steel Shell structures |
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