PURPOSES : Steel deck bridges are the preferred structural type for reducing dead load, and the use of thin-layer asphalt concrete with excellent adhesion to the steel deck and excellent deformation followability is increasing for bridge pavements. However, because these materials are constructed at a high temperature of 240 °C or higher to maintain high fluidity during construction, excessive thermal deformation and stress may be temporarily induced in the steel deck. Therefore, the stability of the structure must be assessed by considering the environmental conditions of the site during pavement construction. Herein, a method is presented for estimating the heat source equation, in which conduction and convection effects are removed using temperature measurement data, for modeling U-rib using plate elements. The validity of the study is assessed by deriving the equivalent heat source equation using the temperature data measured from the underside of the steel deck while constructing a 40-mm-thick goose asphalt concrete pavement layer on a 12-mm-thick steel deck. In addition, the practicality is verified by performing heat transfer and thermal stress analyses. METHODS : By comparing the temperature data measured during the construction of high-fluidity asphalt concrete with the results of repeated heat transfer numerical analysis, heat source data without field conduction and convection conditions are obtained. Subsequently, a heat source equation suitable for the heat source data is derived using the least-squares method. RESULTS : The results of the heat transfer analysis using the equivalent heat source equation calculated using the presented method are almost consistent with the measured temperature data. In addition, the behavioral characteristics of the structure that matches the behavior of the actual structure can be derived through thermal stress analysis, which considers heat conduction and convection to adjacent members. CONCLUSIONS : Even when the steel deck and U-rib member are modeled as plate elements, thermal effect analysis can be performed reasonably while considering field conditions.

국내 교량 설계에서 온도 하중에 대한 현재 LSD (한계 상태 설계법)는 다양한 교량 형식에 대한 동일한 기준을 적용하고 있다. 본 연구에서는 유효 온도를 산정하기 위해 실제 크기의 상판이 없는 강상자형거더교 시험체를 제작하였다. 1년동안 강상자형거더교모형의 18개 지점에서 온도데이터를 측정하였다. 측정된 데이터를 바탕으로 대기 온도에 따른 교량단면내 유효 온도를 산정 하였다. 유로 코드의 유효 온도와 비교할 때 실측 유효온도의 결과는 매우 유사한 상관 관계를 보였다. 따라서, 본 데이터를 기반으로 산정 된 유효 온도는 국내 교량설계에 온도 하중에 적합한 설계 기준을 제시하기 위한 기초 자료로 사용할 수 있다.

A present LSD(limited state design) code for bridge temperature load have applied a uniform standard for various bridge type. In this study, in order to acquire the calculation effective thermal, a steel box girder bridge section specimen with real size dimension was manufactured. And over a year, the temperature data were measured in the sections. Effective temperature within the cross section according to atmospheric temperature were calculated by this experiment data. The analyzed results was very similar correlation when compared with the effective temperature of the Euro Code. Therefore, the effective temperature which calculated based on the present data could be used as the basic data in order to present to the appropriate design criteria for the thermal loads on the domestic bridge design

In this study, measured data of cable-supported bridge’s thermal expansion and contraction were analyzed. To evaluate structural behaviors by temperature variations, measured data were compared with theoretical values by correlation analysis between thermal movements and temperatures. Additionally, the cumulative displacements were analyzed. Through the analysis of the results, the evaluation methods of cable-supported bridge's thermal expansion and contraction is suggested.