Soil-Steel Interaction of Long-Span Box Culverts-Performance during Backfilling

• The paper presents the performance of four long-span deep-corrugated steel box culverts with spans of 8- and 14-m during backfilling, as well as comparisons with finite-element modeling and design codes. Two of the culverts were stiffened at the crown arch. The test results show that the stiffening applied on the culverts is quite effective. The crown rises of the respective stiffened culverts were found to be half those of the not-stiffened culverts. The influence of the structure geometry on the soil-passive earth pressure was confirmed, as well as the sensitivity of box culverts to soil loads with increasing spans. The results showed that the influence of the size and shape of the box culverts on the amount of thrusts must be better implemented in the design method. The finite-element analysis results were conservative when live loading was concerned but the crown displacements and thrust during backfilling were underestimated.

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TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER  -- Samhällsbyggnadsteknik -- Husbyggnad (hsv//swe)

ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY  -- Civil Engineering -- Building Technologies (hsv//eng)

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Box culverts

Buried structures

Field tests

Instrumentation

Soil-steel structures

Structural response

Design methods

Soil-structure interaction

Finite-element modeling

Building engineering

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