Research on three dimensional detection system of fatigue cracks of steel box girder

• Main Authors: Lin Su, Jian Zhang, Xi Cheng
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: EDP Sciences 2018-01-01
• Series: MATEC Web of Conferences
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1051/matecconf/201817503007

The fatigue cracks are inevitably existed in steel bridges after they are working for a fairly short time because of the environmental pollution, overloading vehicles and larger numbers of automobiles. How to efficiently detect the fatigue cracks, especially the initial fatigue cracks, become one of the most important question to be solved for the steel box girder. The static and fatigue tests of the orthotropic steel bridge deck models were carried out in this research paper, which presented the fatigue damage developing laws, compared the test results with homogeneous test results in existing documents. Three dimensional micro detection scheme of fatigue cracks in steel box girder with three dimensional detection system is studied. Through the data from the testing design, the important characteristic width and length of the fatigue crack can be achieved, which can be used for the grasping of the mechanism of the steel box girder.