Title: Bridge Grids with Inegral Slabs--A New Anaytical Approach

Author(s): P.S. Dravid and C.L. Mehta

Publication: Symposium Paper

Volume: 26

Issue:

Appears on pages(s): 166-181

Keywords: beams (supports); bending moments; bridge decks; bridge (structures); concrete slabs; continuity (structural); loads (forces); models; reinforced concretes; research; structural analysis

DOI: 10.14359/17976

Date: 1/1/1971

Abstract:
The rigorous analysis of bridge decks consisting of longitudinal girders, cross beams and deck slab is highly complex, since the cross beams and the slab contribute to a desirable load distribution over the entire system. The slab forms a continuous plate rigidity connected to elastic supports, namely the grid of cross beams and longitudinal girders.