Print Email Facebook Twitter Enhanced Fatigue Life of Old Metallic Bridges - Application of Preloaded Injection Bolts Title Enhanced Fatigue Life of Old Metallic Bridges - Application of Preloaded Injection Bolts Author Silva Pedrosa, B.A. (Universidade de Coimbra) Rebelo, Carlos (Universidade de Coimbra) Correia, J.A.F.O. (Universidade do Porto) Veljkovic, M. (TU Delft Steel & Composite Structures) Silva, Luís A. P. S. (Universidade de Coimbra) Contributor Sena-Cruz, J. (editor) Correia, L. (editor) Azenha, M. (editor) Date 2022 Abstract There is a significant number of old metallic bridges with high levels of structural degradation due to their long service period. Fatigue problems are especially important in these structures since the majority of them were not designed taking into account this phenomenon. Several investigations showed that riveted joints are critical details since several fatigue cracks were found in these joints. In this sense, strengthening methodologies need to be studied. The strategy that has been considered a good solution is the implementation of injection bolts to replace faulty rivets. The structural performance of injection bolts has been demonstrated essentially under quasi-static conditions presenting good results. This paper intends to contribute to the scientific knowledge regarding the fatigue behavior of connections with preloaded injection bolts in the context of a bridge strengthening scenario. An experimental investigation was conducted to compare the fatigue performance of connections with preloaded injection bolts and preloaded standard bolts. Single and double shear connections were tested. New S–N design curves were proposed based on a statistical analysis of the results and compared with the S–N curves proposed in EC3-1–9. The obtained results showed that the use of injection bolts lead to lower scatter and improvement of fatigue life. It was verified that the Eurocode 3 is not able to represent the fatigue strength of connections whose performance is influenced by old metallic materials. Additionally, the fatigue behavior of these connections was assessed by numerical analysis. The relevance of the fatigue crack initiation was evident. Subject FatigueInjection boltsOld metallic bridgesStrengthening To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:36c4d58e-2f7a-4b26-aecd-4678774fd435 DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-76465-4_18 Publisher Springer, Cham Embargo date 2022-01-14 ISBN 978-3-030-76464-7 Source Proceedings of the 3rd RILEM Spring Convention and Conference (RSCC 2020): Volume 3: Service Life Extension of Existing Structures Event 3rd RILEM Spring Convention and Conference on Ambitioning a sustainable future for built environment, 2020-03-10 → 2020-03-14, Guimaraes, Portugal Series RILEM Bookseries, 2211-0844, 34 Bibliographical note Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository ‘You share, we take care!’ – Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public. Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type book chapter Rights © 2022 B.A. Silva Pedrosa, Carlos Rebelo, J.A.F.O. Correia, M. Veljkovic, Luís A. P. S. Silva Files PDF Enhanced_Fatigue_Life_of_ ... _Bolts.pdf 14.94 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:36c4d58e-2f7a-4b26-aecd-4678774fd435/datastream/OBJ/view