详情

当前位置：首页> 全球交通科研项目数据库 >详情

Synthesis of Information Related to Highway Practices. Topic 54-11. Quality Control Checks for Bridge and Structure Analysis Models

项目名称：	Synthesis of Information Related to Highway Practices. Topic 54-11. Quality Control Checks for Bridge and Structure Analysis Models
摘要：	The design of bridges often involves the use of structural analysis models of varying degrees of complexity. Superstructure design models vary from approximate 1-dimensional line girder analysis models to complex 2- and 3-dimensional finite element analysis models. Substructure and foundation models often consider soil-structure interaction, second-order effects, dynamic response (for seismic analysis), and interaction with the superstructure. A variety of software analysis programs are used to create and run these models, both commercial software and user- developed software. These models, and the structures they represent, can be quite complex, with enormous amounts of input parameters and output of results. Structural analysis typically includes choosing appropriate software, identifying qualified staff, creating appropriately refined models, making appropriate assumptions, performing the analysis, and checking the results. The quality process is even more rigorous for complex structures. The engineer must understand the limitations of the software, the anticipated behavior of the structure, and review the predicted behavior of the models to determine if the model is correctly representing and estimating the real-world performance of the structure. A simple “check the program input values” is not always practical, or sufficient, for checking these models. Often it is necessary to perform other actions to check the model, such as “sanity check” reviews of key model results, comparing the model results to the results of simpler analysis methods, performing full independent analysis modeling and comparing the results, or other methods. The objective of this synthesis is to document state department of transportation (DOT) practices related to the quality processes for bridge analysis. The synthesis will document the processes used to identify appropriately qualified staff, choose appropriate software, model the structure, and validate the results. Information to be gathered includes (but is not limited to): (1) Identification of DOTs that have formal and informal quality processes for models and those that do not. (2) Written or informal processes for identifying appropriately qualified staff, both in-house and consultants (e.g., education requirements, license requirements, experience levels, prequalification requirements); (3) Written or informal processes for choosing appropriate software (e.g., prequalification lists, required type of analysis for a given structure type or for a given purpose of analysis); (4) Written or informal processes for modeling the structure (e.g., boundary conditions, material properties, loading distribution, section loss, nonlinear versus linear, dynamic, time dependent, buckling, type of element, soil structure interaction); (5) Written or informal processes for validating the results (e.g., line-by-line checking, "sanity check" reviews of key model results, comparing the model results to other results, independent review and analysis, instrumentation); and (7) Written or informal processes for reconciling discrepancies between independent models.
状态：	Active
资金：	55000
资助组织：	National Cooperative Highway Research Program；American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO)；Federal Highway Administration
项目负责人：	Gause, Jo Allen
执行机构：	University of Toledo, Ohio
主要研究人员：	Guner, Serhan
开始时间：	20221010
主题领域：	Administration and Management；Bridges and other structures；Data and Information Technology；Design；Highways