Corrugated core sandwich steel panel: Quantifying performance improvement between empty and filled sandwich panels using J-Integral based local approach

Orthotropic bridges are being built for more than half a century. These bridges are prone to high cycle fatigue due to traffic loading. Early onset of fatigue cracking is a serious issue in both old and recently built bridges. To prevent this a number of different cross section have been suggested. Sandwich Panel is one of the suggested...