Effect of vehicle-bridge interaction on nonlinear seismic performance of bridge under strong earthquakes

Abstract

Railway bridges are continuously loaded by railway trains; therefore, it is important to understand the nonlinear seismic response of the Vehicle-Bridge Interaction (VBI) system under strong earthquakes. For this purpose, the nonlinear behavior of the pier was introduced into the in-house VBI solvers. The nonlinear the seismic response of the VBI system was comprehensively evaluated using this model, and the effect of the vehicle dynamics on seismic performance of the bridge was identified. It was found that the seismic responses of most simply-supported bridges were reduced in the presence of railway trains due to the out-of-phase motion of the vehicle-bridge system. Meanwhile, the nonlinear behavior of the pier can reduce the vehicle’s seismic responses. Therefore, ignoring the nonlinear behavior of the pier during strong earthquakes can significantly overestimate the seismic response of the vehicle.

Keywords

Bridge nonlinear behavior / Vehicle dynamics effect / Seismic safety / Vehicle-bridge interaction / Pier height

CRediT authorship contribution statement

Zhibin Jin: Methodology, Conceptualization. Ke Chen: Writing – original draft, Investigation. Haoyuan Yang: Writing – review & editing, Software, Data curation.

Declaration of Competing Interest

The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.

Acknowledgments

This study is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 51678490) and the Natural Science Foundation of Sichuan Province (Grant No. 2024NSFSC0161).

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