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- Title
Failure Investigation of under Construction Prestressed Concrete Bridge in Chitwan, Nepal.
- Authors
Adhikari, Rabindra; Jha, Pratyush; Bhatt, Lalit; Thapa, Dipesh; Forcellini, Davide; Gautam, Dipendra
- Abstract
On 6 April 2021, a 200 m-long under-construction prestressed concrete bridge failed in the Chitwan District in central Nepal. Two of the four bridge spans collapsed without any notable evidence of dynamic force application. Under-construction bridge failures are sometimes reported and can have a significant impact on the future construction adjustments. Thus, a detailed study of failure mechanisms will be insightful for the structural engineering community. Aiming to document the failure modes and exemplify lessons for improvement, this paper reports the detailed component level failure mechanisms of the bridge using visual inspection, site measurements, finite element modeling, and some forms of non-destructive testing. The chronological failure mechanisms are presented based on the field evidence and juxtaposed with the results of analytical modeling. The sum of findings highlights that the dead load failure, triggered by the settlement of falseworks, is the most critically governing factor that initiated and aggravated the damage scenario.
- Subjects
NEPAL; PRESTRESSED concrete bridges; STRUCTURAL engineering; NONDESTRUCTIVE testing; FALSEWORK (Structural engineering)
- Publication
Infrastructures, 2022, Vol 7, Issue 2, pN.PAG
- ISSN
2412-3811
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/infrastructures7020014