The objectives of this paper are evaluating the fatigue performance and analyzing trend of the changes in dynamic properties of IT girder. The IT girder is a new type of the PSC girder with double prestressing capacity using the prestressed H beams in...
The objectives of this paper are evaluating the fatigue performance and analyzing trend of the changes in dynamic properties of IT girder. The IT girder is a new type of the PSC girder with double prestressing capacity using the prestressed H beams installed in the top of the section. Since the IT applies new structural concept of double prestressing, It is necessary to evaluate its fatigue performance and dynamic characteristic changes through experiments. Currently, the fatigue performance of concrete structures including PSC girders are limited only to steel reinforcements and tendons in the domestic design codes. Therefore, in this paper, the Japanese and European codes are applied to evaluate the fatigue performance of the PSC girder.
From the fatigue test, following static and dynamic characteristic changes are observed. Firstly, static stiffness of the IT girder decreases proportional to the logarithm of the number of cyclic loads. Secondly, as the number of the cyclic load accumulates, the residual strain increases and the neutral axis goes up. Thirdly, the concrete strength after the 2 million repetition of the cyclic load, back-calculated using the static displacement, satisfies the fatigue strength requirements of the Japanese and European codes. Finally, as the number of the cyclic load accumulates, the natural frequency decreases down to 4.3%, and the damping ratio increases up to 56%.
Key words : fatigue performance, PSC girder, IT girder, dynamic characteristics, frequency, damping ratio