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Volume 4

International Conference on

CIVIL & STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING

June 21-22, 2018 Paris, France

Journal of Steel Structural and Construction

ISSN : 2472-0437

Civil Engineering 2018

June 21-22, 2018

Developing a neutral equilibrium device as dynamic virtual piers for an emergency relief bridge

Ming-Hsiang Shih

, Wen-Pei Sung

and Yu-Cheng Wang

National Chi Nan University, Taiwan

National Chin-Yi University of Technology, Taiwan

very year, many natural disasters strike Taiwan, destroying bridges and disrupting traffic. To allow shipping of relief provisions

and salvage, fabricated steel bridges are often used to construct emergency relief bridges. This kind of bridge must meet strength

and functionality requirements. Strength depends on the materials used, while functionality depends on displacement control. These

two requirements affect the section design of the bridge deck. In order to quickly build a light-weight bridge for emergency relief

with displacement control, a neutral equilibrium mechanism is proposed and developed to control the deflection of an emergency

relief bridge. A neutral equilibrium mechanism is a system with an internal control mechanism that can actively change the internal

structure. Structural transformation causes the size variation of the action force to respond to continuous changes in bridge deflection.

This mechanism can expand the effective span of the bridge, maintain its strength and functionality and increase the convenience

of building and mobility. Experimental results reveal that a virtual pier at the center of a bridge with this proposed mechanism

installed can control vertical deflection caused by vehicles carrying heavy loads. Test and analysis records also reveal that the vertical

displacement at the center of a bridge with the neutral equilibrium mechanism installed is close to zero. The practicality of this

neutral equilibrium mechanism has been verified by experiment.

J Steel Struct Constr 2018, Volume 4

DOI: 10.4172/2472-0437-C1-007