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Efficient Prestressed Concrete-Steel Composite Girder For Medium-Span Bridges, Yaohua Deng
Efficient Prestressed Concrete-Steel Composite Girder For Medium-Span Bridges, Yaohua Deng
Department of Construction Engineering and Management: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research
In this dissertation, a new Prestressed Concrete-Steel Composite (PCSC) girder system is introduced. The PCSC girder is composed of a lightweight W-shape steel section with shear studs on its top and bottom flanges to achieve composite action with the pretensioned concrete bottom flange and the cast-in-place concrete deck. The PCSC girder is lightweight, economical, durable and easy to fabricate. To prove its feasibility and potential, this study is to investigate design and fabrication issues associated with the PCSC girder. A service design procedure is proposed using Age-adjusted Elasticity Modulus Method (AEMM) to evaluate the time-dependent stresses and strains in the …