BUCKLING STRENGTH ANALYSES OF CORRODED TRUSS MEMBER WITH COMBINED CROSS SECTION

Abstract

It will be important to forecast future the deterioration of remaining strength on corroded members for working out reasonable maintenance scenarios on steel structure. In this study, the buckling strength analyses, including future forecast, were conducted for the vertical member, which has the combined cross-section in actual aging truss bridge. For constructing the analytical model, a simple corrosion progress model was applied to generating the corroded steel surface. In this corrosion progress model, it assumes that corrosion pits are generated by the attack factors which can be decided by some control parameters for corrosion environment, corrosion form and corrosion area. And, the constant number of the attack factors per year fall all over the discretized steel surface. The corrosion surface in the future can be generated numerically by repeating mentioned above. The average thickness calculated from the numerical corrosion surface was applied to the local corrosion area in each analytical model. From these analytical results, a future forecast method applying a corrosion progress model was discussed by focusing on the aging deterioration of the buckling strength.