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Assessment of the Bill Emerson Memorial Bridge - FTP Directory ...

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Table 4.1Main span(in SCMS)Approach(in AS)Member details extracted from bridge drawingsMemberReferenceTowers(Piers) Sheets: 27-77, 183, 184Cables Sheets: 124-126Edge girders Sheets: 86-114Floor beams Sheets: 115-120Center Strut Sheet: 121Slabs Sheets: 128-145, 192,193Piers Sheets: 24-46End bent Sheets: 47-50Slabs Sheets: 55-58Piles foundation Sheets: 264.3. Material propertiesThe materials used in <strong>the</strong> <strong>Bill</strong> <strong>Emerson</strong> <strong>Memorial</strong> Cable-stayed <strong>Bridge</strong> can be grouped intocable steel, girder steel, and reinforced concrete in towers and decks. Their properties arelisted in Table 4.2. They come from <strong>the</strong> bridge drawings directly or follow <strong>the</strong> typicalvalues <strong>of</strong> ASTM standards.Table 4.2Material propertiesGroupNo.MaterialYoung’smodulus(MPa)Poisson’sratioWeightdensity(10 4 N/m 3 )1 Steel 1.999×10 5 0.3 7.702 SteelStructuralmemberEdge girders,Floor beams51.999×10 0.3 7.70 Center beams3 Steel4 Concrete5 Concrete51.999×10 0.3 7.70 Cables42.482×10 0.2 2.36 Towers42.482×10 0.2 2.36 Decks4.4. Modeling <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> main structural members4.4.1. TowersThe function <strong>of</strong> two towers is to support <strong>the</strong> cable system and to transfer its force to <strong>the</strong>foundation. Usually towers are subjected to high axial forces and bending moments. Forboth towers, steel reinforcement was taken into account in <strong>the</strong> calculation <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> sectionproperties.42

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