Print Email Facebook Twitter Computer calculations of a complex steel bridge verified by model investigations Title Computer calculations of a complex steel bridge verified by model investigations Author Kayser, T.H. Binkhorst, J. Corporate name Rijkswaterstaat Date 1975-01-01 Abstract The Department of Bridges of the Netherlands Ministry of Transport, Water Control and Public Works (Rijkswaterstaat) has recently designed a large cable-stayed box girder steel bridge which is now being built over the river Waal near Ewijk. After the design phase several critical building phases were investigated using a finite element programme designed for box girder-type problems. Though the overall pattern of the stress distribution as given by the computer programme was expected, the orderand magnitude of the peak stresses gave rise to the need for an extra verification of these results. It was decided therefore to make a model investigation, the results of which confirmed the outcome of the computer programme. Not only is a comparison of both results given but, in addition, the behaviour of the complex steel bridge is discussed from an analytic and engineering point of view in the article. Subject finite element programmebox girderstress distributions Classification TPL00 To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:d9f17275-ad84-4a6d-8064-96149f6ca9ec Publisher Rijkswaterstaat, DWW Source Rijkswaterstaat Communications No. 23 Part of collection Hydraulic Engineering Reports Document type report Rights (c) 1975 Rijkswaterstaat Files PDF 23-Computer-calculations- ... bridge.pdf 2.02 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:d9f17275-ad84-4a6d-8064-96149f6ca9ec/datastream/OBJ/view