Finite Element Analysis of Fiber Reinforced Polymer (FRP) Bridge Deck Structures

Abstract

Many RCC bridge decks are showing the sign of distress due to corrosion of the reinforcements much before its design life span. Use of fiber reinforced polymer (FRP) bridge deck structures is increasingly rapidly all over the world due to its many advantages over the conventional materials. The FRP bridge deck is lighter, durable, easy to work with, maintenance free and expected to have low life cycle cost. For a relatively practical configuration as in FRP rectangular and skew bridge deck the extensive use of the finite element software package ABAQUS have been observed to be justified as such the problems of FRP bridge deck subjected to uniform pressure is analyzed by developing a finite element model of FRP bridge deck by using ABAQUS first and results obtained are compared with the work done by previous researchers. In all the cases the results obtained by the present FE model compared very well. As such the finite element model based on ABAQUS is used to generate many new results for FRP bridge deck subjected to under Indian loading conditions (IRC).

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