Abstract
In a railway bridge, the end support system plays a crucial role in resisting both vertical and lateral loadings for which the bridge is essentially designed, warranting a need for regular monitoring and assessing the conditions of the same. In the present investigation, a site-specific case study of a railway bridge in northwest India has been taken into consideration. The Rohtak-Gohana Line Railway Bridge segment includes an overhead viaduct of a busy road and is located in the Indian state of Haryana. A two-dimensional continuum model has been developed to simulate the behavior of the abutment-backfill-pile system of the bridge. Lateral monotonic pushover analysis has been carried out for capacity assessment. Consequently, a comprehensive static load analysis has been carried out to evaluate the global performance as well as system-level performances in location such as pile cap, individual piles, pile-soil interface, abutments, abutment-backfill etc. under different levels of lateral loadings. The findings may be useful for the future safety assessment of the geotechnical components of the rail bridge and the consequent decision on maintenance measures.
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Abbreviations
- COPDSF:
-
Code of Practice for the Design of Sub-structures and Foundations
- RDSO:
-
Research Designs & Standard Organizations
- SAP:
-
Structural Analysis Program
- GRS:
-
geosynthethics-reinforced soil
- FLAC:
-
Fast Lagrangian Analysis of Continua
- IAB:
-
integral abutment bridge
- ANSYS:
-
analysis system
- OPENSEES:
-
Open System for Earthquake Engineering Simulation
- IRS:
-
Indian Railway Standard
- FEM:
-
finite element method
- EFS:
-
equivalent flexural stiffness
- EAS:
-
equivalent axial stiffness
- PDMY:
-
pressure-dependent multi-yield
- SPT:
-
standard penetration test
- MATLAB:
-
Matrix Laboratory
- n p :
-
Number of the piles in the out-of-plane direction
- I p :
-
The moment of inertia of a single pile [m4]
- E p :
-
Young’s modulus of a single pile [kPa]
- A p :
-
The cross-sectional area of a single pile [m2]
- L c :
-
The out-of-plane pile cap dimension [m]
- δ :
-
Soil- structure interface angle [degree]
- φ :
-
Soil friction angle
- μ :
-
Friction coefficient
- K n :
-
Normal penalty parameter
- K t :
-
Tangential penalty parameter
- K σ :
-
The overburden effect
- τ oct :
-
Octahedral shear stress [kPa]
- γ oct :
-
Octahedral shear strain
- σ xx :
-
The normal stress component in the X-direction on a plane perpendicular to the X-axis [kPa]
- σ yy :
-
The normal stress component in the Y-direction on a plane perpendicular to the Y-axis [kPa]
- σ zz :
-
The normal stress component in the Z-direction on a plane perpendicular to the Z-axis [kPa]
- τ xy :
-
The shear stress component in the X-Y plane on a plane perpendicular to the X-axis [kPa]
- τ yz :
-
The shear stress component in the Y-Z plane on a plane perpendicular to the Y-axis [kPa]
- τ zx :
-
The shear stress component in the Z-X plane on a plane perpendicular to the Z-axis [kPa]
- ε xx :
-
The normal strain component in the X-direction on a plane perpendicular to the X-axis
- ε yy :
-
The normal strain component in the Y-direction on a plane perpendicular to the X-axis
- ε zz :
-
The normal strain component in the Z-direction on a plane perpendicular to the Z-axis
- γ xy :
-
The shear strain component in the X-Y plane on a plane perpendicular to the X-axis
- γ yz :
-
The shear strain component in the Y-Z plane on a plane perpendicular to the Y-axis
- γ zx :
-
The shear strain component in the Z-X plane on a plane perpendicular to the Z-axis
- G :
-
The shear modulus of soil in octahedral plane [kPa]
- γ r :
-
The reference shear strain at which reference low-strain shear modulus is considered
- p r :
-
The reference mean effective confining pressure [kPa]
- p ′ :
-
The current mean effective confining pressure [kPa]
- G oct,r :
-
The reference low-strain shear modulus defined at pr [kPa]
- N 1,60 :
-
The corrected SPT blow count considering the effect of overburden pressure and 60% energy efficiency of the hammer
- ρ :
-
Density of the soil layer [t/m3]
- V s1 :
-
Shear wave velocity considering the effect of overburden pressure [m/s]
- G max :
-
The low-strain shear modulus at p′ [kPa]
- G max,oct :
-
The low-strain shear modulus at p′ in octahedral plane [kPa]
- d :
-
Pressure-dependent coefficient
- K o :
-
Lateral earth pressure ratio at rest
- σ′v :
-
Effective vertical stress the middle of the layer [kPa]
- B oct,r :
-
The reference low-strain bulk modulus defined at pr [kPa]
- ν :
-
Poisson’s ratio
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Bagchi, A., Raychowdhury, P. A Comprehensive Numerical Based Case Study on Abutment-Foundation-Backfill Behavior of a Railway Bridge. Transp. Infrastruct. Geotech. 11, 1348–1374 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40515-023-00328-9
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