Abstract
To evaluate the vulnerability of bridges at various construction stages under the action of strong earthquakes, the incremental dynamic analysis (IDA) method is applied, and the vulnerabilities of a continuous girder case study bridge with the cast-in-place cantilever construction method, which owns five main construction stages, are evaluated and compared. The results show the following: With the increase in the peak ground acceleration (PGA), the vulnerabilities of bridges at different construction stages all increase. The fragility and vulnerability are mainly determined by the structural mechanical system condition and the mode shapes but not the modal frequency. For the working condition of seismic PGA of 0.4 g, (1) the bridge at the substructure construction stage may only experience slight or moderate damage with the exceedance probability of 8% to 5% and the mean loss ratio being only about 5%; (2) the vulnerabilities of bridges at the middle cantilever construction stage and the long cantilever construction stage are similar, the collapse damage exceedance probability is about 80%, and the mean loss ratio is about 65%; and (3) the vulnerabilities of bridges at the middle span closure construction stage and the bridge completion construction stage are nearly the same, the collapse damage exceedance probability is about 98%, and the mean loss ratio can reach 80%. The research results explore a new method for evaluating the vulnerability of bridges at different construction stages, which can provide suggestions for seismic damage defense and seismic insurance risk evaluation.
Highlights
In the statistics [1] of 279 bridge collapse cases after the year of 2000, the bridges with construction collapse cases comprised 46.59%, whereas natural disasters accounted for 28.32%
Cao et al [9] studied the seismic fragility of multispan continuous girder bridges with consideration of the bond-slip behavior using the incremental dynamic analysis (IDA) method
(2) e fragility and vulnerability are mainly determined by the structural mechanical system condition and the mode shapes but not the modal frequency
Summary
In the statistics [1] of 279 bridge collapse cases after the year of 2000, the bridges with construction collapse cases comprised 46.59%, whereas natural disasters accounted for 28.32%. Pan et al [8] proposed a curve fitting method based on the damage index demand to capability ratio model to analyze the seismic vulnerability of New York continuous steel bridges. From the point of view of earthquake insurance, the existing commercial catastrophe risk models assume that a completed bridge has invariable vulnerability. A prestressed concrete continuous girder bridge with the cantilever method will be taken as the example to research the construction stage seismic vulnerability evaluation method. With consideration of the mechanical characteristics at different construction stages, five construction stages, which include the substructure, middle cantilever, long cantilever, middle span closure, and bridge completion stages, are comparatively researched on their seismic vulnerabilities. E seismic vulnerabilities of the bridges at different construction stages are evaluated by utilizing the IDA method With consideration of the mechanical characteristics at different construction stages, five construction stages, which include the substructure, middle cantilever, long cantilever, middle span closure, and bridge completion stages, are comparatively researched on their seismic vulnerabilities. e seismic vulnerabilities of the bridges at different construction stages are evaluated by utilizing the IDA method
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