Reliability assessment of the dynamic behavior of high-speed railway bridges using first order reliability method
2020 (English)In: Proceedings of the International Conference on Structural Dynamic , EURODYN, European Association for Structural Dynamics , 2020, p. 3438-3450Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]
The operational speed of the trains is intended to be significantly increased forthcoming; which consequently questions the safety level of the current design concepts concerning different performance limits. Thus, the reliability of the simply supported single-span bridges is assessed in the current article adopting the first-order reliability method (FORM) approach. In this regard, the dynamic response of the aimed bridges is investigated under the passage of a series of moving loads using available closed-form solutions in the literature. Hereof, axle load, car body/train configuration, flexural rigidity, damping, mass and model uncertainties are considered as random variables; while train-track-bridge interactions are neglected and the procedure is repeated for a wide range of span lengths and train velocities. Then, the safety index corresponding to each case is evaluated by considering running safety as the limit state function; where, the bridge deck vertical acceleration is taken as the capacity of the system. The outcomes are presented as average probability of exceeding the limit state versus train speed and categorized based on span lengths.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
European Association for Structural Dynamics , 2020. p. 3438-3450
Keywords [en]
Bridge dynamics, First order reliability methods, High-speed railway bridges, Running safety, Serviceability limit state, Structural reliability, Railroad plant and structures, Railroad transportation, Reliability, Structural dynamics, Uncertainty analysis, Closed form solutions, Limit state functions, Model uncertainties, Reliability assessments, Single-span bridges, Vertical accelerations, Bridge decks
National Category
Infrastructure Engineering
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-293337Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85098714239OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-293337DiVA, id: diva2:1552464
Conference
11th International Conference on Structural Dynamics, EURODYN 2020, 23 November 2020 through 26 November 2020
Note
QC 20210505
2021-05-052021-05-052024-01-10Bibliographically approved