Influence of Moving Load on the Behaviour of Skewed and Curved Rectangular Box Girder Bridges
:In urbanized or hilly areas, the alignment issues are more critical and to resolve such issues and to make smooth passage of congested traffic, construction of skewed and curved box girder bridges is becoming more customary in engineering perspective. However, behavior such bridges is significantly different from that of straight bridges as several parameters such as skew angle, radius of curvature, cross section of box girder etc. are involved in the analysis.The present paper deals with the analytical study of behavior of a single cell skewed and curved rectangular box Girder Bridge using simple finite element models considering IRC 70 R and dead load as primary forces. The analytical behavior of the bridge has been studied considering the bridge with two spans of 60 m length and varying the parameters namely skew angle and radius of curvature. The results of the study indicate that skew angle and radius of curvature have significant effect on deflection, reaction at support, bending moment and shear stress of box Girder Bridge deck.