CONTINUOUS BRIDGE

By ,
Vimal A
M.Tech (SE)
 INTRODUCTION
• A continuous bridge is a truss bridge which
extends without hinges or joints across three
or more supports
• Continuous bridges are more economical.
• These structure are statically indeterminate.
 TYPES OF CONTINOUS BRIDGE
• Slab and T Beam bridges
• Box girder bridge
 SLAB AND T BEAM BRIDGE
• The solid slab continous bridges may be
adopted for spans upto 25m.
• The T Beam continous bridge may be used for
span beyound 20m, but below 40m.
• Above this limit box girder bridges may be
found suitable.
 BOX GIRDER BRIDGE
• Box Girder Super structures which are
generally found useful for medium long span
bridges.
• It consists of longitudinal girders usually three
in numbers with deck and soffit slab at top
and bottom.
• The advantage of this type of, superstructure is its
great torsional resistance which helps a good deal in
better distribution of eccentric live loads over the
girders. Unlike girder bridges, live load distribution
becomes more even in box girder bridges.
• Another advantage that may be achieved from this
type of structure is that instead of increasing the
depth of the section where the resisting moment
becomes less than the design moment, the former
can be increased if the slab thickness on the
compression side is suitably increased.
• To cater for varying moments at different
sections, the thickness of the top or bottom
slab is varied depending on whether positive
or negative moment is to be resisted.
• The deck slab is designed as a continuous slab
over the longitudinal girders similar to slab
and girder bridges. The thickness of deck slab
varies from 200 to 250 mm. depending on the
spacing of the longitudinal girders.
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