Experimental Test and Finite Element Analysis on a Concrete Box Girder of a Cable-Stayed Bridge with W-Shaped Prestressed Concrete Diagonal Braces

Abstract

This paper presents an experimental study on the box girder of a low-tower cable-stayed railway bridge with a W-shaped section that consists of prestressed concrete diagonal braces. A 1:6 scale test model was designed and constructed for the experiment. The mechanical behavior of the test model was investigated under two loading conditions: a double-track train symmetrical load and a single-track train unsymmetrical load. The experimental results were validated against a finite element model. Furthermore, the torsional performance of the box girder section was analyzed and discussed.