The Improvement of the Design Standard of Overloaded Highway

Abstract

With the development of the transportation industry, the trend of overload is obviously, design load of highway bridges needs to be improved. Based on the field investigation and data analysis, this study modifies the design standers of highway. The regularities on characteristics of models, vehicle weight and the distribution of axle load and spacing were studied. Using the Matlab programming language and the Monte Carlo numerical simulation method to simulate a random traffic model, then loaded on simple bridges and continuous bridges with different span in order to calculate bending effect. The data were compared with the first level in highway load code and proposed the load increase parameters: when the span is less than 20 m, then use 1.2 times the standard specification in bridge design; in other situation, use 1.3 times the standard factor. Analyzing the characteristic of the vehicle load, can not only give technical parameters for the quantitative analysis of overloading traffic effects on the fatigue damage of bridge, but also provide a reference for bridge design units and the operation management department. So it has great realistic significance and research value.