ABSTRACT

Since the severe situation of small radius curved girder overturning accidents in recent years in China, the research of anti-overturning performance with these bridges are becoming more and more important. In this paper, one small radius multi-span curved girder will be studied in the following procedure. Firstly, the requirements and application conditions of anti-overturning analysis methods at present will be summarized. Secondly, the finite element numerical model of the curved bridge will be built and some calculation and research on its anti-overturning performance will be carried out. Furthermore, the valuable conclusion will be drawn too, which can provide powerful practice and theory reference for the application and research of similar structure.

KEYWORDS

small radius curved girder, anti-overturning performance, structural finite element analysis