文献综述--桥梁热效应.doc

Literature Review about Solar Radiation-induced Thermal Effect on Concrete Bridge Abstract: Changing environmental conditions, especially temperature, have been observed to be a complicated factor affecting vibration properties, such as frequencies, mode shapes, and damping of civil structures. This paper reviews technical literature concerning solar radiation-induced temperature effect on concrete bridge. Most of these studies focus on variations in frequencies of bridge structures, with some studies on variations in mode shapes and damping and other types of structures. It is seen that the numerical models can successfully predict the structural temperature field and thermal stresses at different time.The methodology employed in the paper can be applied to other concrete bridges as well. Keyword: temperature; literature; bridge structures; methodology 1 Introduction Many concrete bridges are subjected to daily, seasonal and yearly environmental thermal effects induced by solar radiation and ambient air temperature. Experiments and field measurements have indicated that changing thermal conditions may have a more significant effect on concrete bridge behavior than operational loads. The heat transfer from surrounding environment may induce temperature variation at concrete components and thereby produce structural deformation and thermal stresses due to redundancy. The thermal effects on concrete bridges even long span bridges have been investigated by many researchers across the world since 50 years ago and some approaches have been developed to examine the performance of bridges subjected to temperature loading. With the rapid development of computational methods and computer technology, a number of one-dimensional to three-dimensional finite element models have been developed since the 1970s. Most of the current investigations mainly focus on thermal effects on concrete bridges. The configuration and performance of long span bridges such as suspension bridges