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Fixing of Dimensions Civil Engg. Department of our college has carried out the contour survey work of the Gangambika site. Plan and elevation have been prepared as per the client requirement. The size of the bridge is fixed as per the contour map Figure 3 and site conditions. The salient features of the site are as follows: Span of the bridge = 90 m Width of the bridge = 4 m Height of the tower = 12 m Thickness of deck slab = 120 mm Grade of concrete = M 35
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Grade of steel = Fe 415
The 3-D view of the cable suspension footbridge taken up for present study is shown in Figure. 4.
View Online Download Issue (PDF) Previous Issues Modeling and Analysis This type of bridge comprises basically a deck slab reinforced with steel bars, stiffening girder, cable system and the tower. Since concrete has a very low tensile strength, the tensile load is transferred by the cables to the anchorage block over the support. The concrete is assumed to carry all the compressive bending stresses. The loads are considered as per IS: 875 part I, II, III and their combinations have been taken as per IS: 875 part V which are: DL + LL DL + LL + WX DL + LL + WZ DL + LL WX DL + LL WZ View Online Download Issue (PDF) Previous Issues The bridge model was analyzed in STAAD.Pro 2006 and designed using excel spreadsheet. The parametric study has been carried out for different spacing of suspenders and cable sags. The results shows that the load combination (DL+LL+WL in +Z) is critical, the 3rdview of this load combination is given in Figure 5.
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Results and Discussions The parametric study is carried out in two folds. View Online Download Issue (PDF) Previous Issues a) Varying the spacing of suspenders and keeping the sag constant. b) Varying the sags and keeping constant spacing of suspender. a)Varying the spacing of suspenders and keeping the sag constant. To decide about the optimum spacing of suspenders, the bridge has been analyzed for different spacing of suspenders varies from 1m to 3m and keeping the sag (span / 10) constant. The results are given in Table 1 as well as in the form of graphs (Figure 6. and Figrue.7). This study shows that, the minimum quantity of the bridge is at 2.25m suspenders spacing. But in the theory, the cable analysis is being done with udl. Therefore this analysis is more suitable if the suspenders spacing is closer. Also from the references, the spacing of suspenders is optimum when it is between 1.25m to 1.75m, therefore in the present work 1.25m spacing of suspenders has been considered and further parametric study on variation of sag has been carried out. b) Varying the sags by keeping constant spacing of suspender Once again the bridge has been analyzed and designed for varying the sags from 7 to 10.5m and keeping the spacing of suspender 1.25m as constant. The results are given in Table 2 as well as in the form of graphs (Figure. 8 and Figure 9 has been left out). The result shows that ratio the span / 10 are economical in design. Conclusions In all cases, the suspenders diameter is less than the minimum required value which is
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