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The document discusses the significance and environmental benefits of steel-concrete composite girder bridges, highlighting their strength, stiffness, and fire resistance. It proposes improvements for small span steel girder bridges through a new steel-reinforced concrete form, enhancing span length and economy. Additionally, it evaluates the effectiveness of perfo-bond rib shear connections and confirms that numerical studies align with experimental findings, validating the finite element model for future research.

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The document discusses the significance and environmental benefits of steel-concrete composite girder bridges, highlighting their strength, stiffness, and fire resistance. It proposes improvements for small span steel girder bridges through a new steel-reinforced concrete form, enhancing span length and economy. Additionally, it evaluates the effectiveness of perfo-bond rib shear connections and confirms that numerical studies align with experimental findings, validating the finite element model for future research.

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Q-1: How significant and environmentally friendly are the steel-concrete composite girder bridges?

Ans-1: There are a wide variety of bridge structure forms in use, but the backbone of the modern transportation network is the
slab-on-girder type (girder bridge). Girder bridge is the simplest structural form of bridges, that’s way the design and the
construction of girder bridges are mostly focused, not only because of its continued popularity as a preferred structure in a new
design projects, but also due to the pressing issues of maintaining and rehabilitating existing slab-on-girder bridges in an aging
infrastructure. Steel and steel-concrete composite bridges are commonly used all over the world, since they combine both
attractive appearance and efficient structural competence. Composite bridge provides higher strength, higher stiffness, good
ductility, better resistance to seismic performance and particularly higher fire resistance.

Q-2: How could improve the current small span steel girder bridges, to be more economical and rational?
Ans-2: Steel rolled H-beam is very competitive for short span lengths (15-25 m). In addition, steel-concrete composite systems
have been widely used in recent decades, because of the benefits of combining the two construction materials. however, in
continuous structural form the area around support joints subjected to negative bending moments, are always more critical than
span centre, which limits the span length. A new steel-reinforced concrete(SRC) form is proposed, which is a multi-span rigid
frame structure and seems to be very competitive and economical. It significantly improved the span length and depth/span
ratio.

Q-3: What is the effect of the perfo-bond rib (PBL) shear connections on the beam-column rigid joints?
Ans-3: Perfo-bond rib (PBL) shear connectors were welded to the upper and lower flanges of the steel girders in the rigid joint
area (beam-column rigid corner joint) to perform sufficient bond and prevent shear slippage between the steel-concrete
interfaces. It achieved a reasonable rigid frame action and its load transfer mechanism were proved by experiment and FEM
studies.

Q-4: Does the proposed bridge form have sufficient strength and ductility against extreme environmental effects?
Ans-4: The proposed bridge was evaluated against ultra-strong earthquake ground motions and temperature effects, which
showed sufficient strength and ductility.

Q-5: Is the numerical studies agreed and coincide with the experimental investigation?

Ans-5: The finite element model was developed and the analyzed results were compared with the experimental results. The
displacement and strains obtained by FEM agreed well with the test results, which verified the established FE model. The
established FEM model could be used for further parametric studies, which is an economical option.

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