Segmental joint of cast-in-place UHPC beam bridge and construction method thereof

• US 10,640,935 B2
• Filed: 01/16/2019
• Issued: 05/05/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 04/09/2018
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hunan University of Science and Technology
• Original Assignee: Hunan University of Science and Technology
• Inventors: Li, Chuanxi, Feng, Zheng
• Primary Examiner(s): Addie, Raymond W
• Application Number:
  US16/248,769
• Publication Number:
  US 20190309488A1
• Time in Patent Office: 475 Days
• Field of Search: 14 73, 14 745, 14 771, 522231-22314
• CPC Class Codes: B28B 1/14 by simple casting, the material being neither forcibly fed nor positively compacted for molten material B28B1/54
• CPC Class Codes: B28B 11/245 Curing concrete articles B28B11/242 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: E01D 19/067 Flat continuous joints cast in situ
• CPC Class Codes: E01D 21/00 Methods or apparatus specially adapted for erecting or assembling bridges
• CPC Class Codes: E01D 2101/24 Concrete
• CPC Class Codes: E01D 2101/268 Composite concrete-metal

Abstract

A segmental joint of cast-in-place UHPC bridge beam. The joint comprises a female joints at an end of a first segment and male joints at an end of a second segment, wherein each female joints and the male joints are correspondingly connected to form a tongue-and-groove connection, and each of the male joints is of a structure with big outer part and small inner part. The beam segment joint of the present disclosure improves the structural strength of the bridge and facilitates on-site construction, which not only applies to the joint connection between the segmental cast-in-place UHPC beam segments and the construction of the segmental cast-in-place UHPC beam segment, but also to joint connection of UHPC bridge deck of UHPC-steel composite beam and of full UHPC bridge deck of UHPC composite box girder with corrugated steel webs and to UHPC bridge deck construction.

Claims

1. A segmental joint of cast-in-place UHPC bridge beam, comprising a plurality of female joints disposed at an end of a first segment and a plurality of male joints disposed at an end of a second segment, wherein each female joints and the male joints are correspondingly connected to form a tongue-and-groove connection, and each of the male joints is of a structure with big outer part and small inner part;

wherein

the tongue-and-groove connection is an inverted-trapezoid-shaped tongue-and-groove connection or a T-shaped tongue-and-groove connection, and wherein

the inverted-trapezoid-shaped tongue-and-groove connection meets the following conditions;

b₂≥

10 cm;

1.6b₂≥

b₁≥

1.2b₂;

0.8b₂≥

h≥

0.5b₂;

80°

≥

β

≥

60 °

;

wherein b₂ is a root width of the male joint, b₁ is a top width of the male joint, h is the protruded height of the male joint, and β

is an angle between a side surface of the male joint and a top surface of the male joint.

2. The segmental joint of cast-in-place UHPC bridge beam according to claim 1, wherein the T-shaped tongue-and-groove connection meets the following conditions:

3. The segmental joint of cast-in-place UHPC bridge beam according to claim 1, wherein a joint at the tongue-and-groove connection is provided with a connecting reinforcing bar spanning a seam.

4. The segmental joint of cast-in-place UHPC bridge beam according to claim 1, wherein the segmental cast-in-place UHPC bridge beam segment joint is a full UHPC bridge deck joint of a UHPC-steel composite beam, a full UHPC bridge deck joint of a UHPC composite box girder with corrugated steel webs, or a joint between UHPC beam segments;

the segmental cast-in-place UHPC bridge is a simply supported beam, a continuous beam or a continuous steel structure;

a section form of the segmental cast-in-place UHPC bridge is a box-shaped beam, an I-beam, a T-beam, a π

-beam or a plate beam.

5. A method of constructing the segmental joint of cast-in-place UHPC bridge beam according to claim 1, comprising steps of:

S1, the segmental cast-in-place UHPC bridge is divided into a first segment that is poured firstly and a second segment that is poured subsequently during pouring, and the first segment that is poured firstly and the second segment that is poured subsequently are connected to form the bridge beam segment joints, where mutual bite force at the tongue-and-groove connection is made use of to eliminate weakening of a tensile strength at the joint caused by artificial fracture of the UHPC plate or beam;

formworks used for the segmental cast-in-place UHPC bridge meets requirements for construction in place, where the formworks are made according to section forms of a top plate, a bottom plate and a web plate, and are divided into a top mold, a bottom mold, a side mold and an end mold;

when the formworks are mounted, lengths of the top mold, the bottom mold and the side mold should exceed a position of the end mold, and when demolding, the top mold, the bottom mold and the side mold are removed first, and the end mold is finally removed in a manner of out-of-plane removal; and

S2, the segmental cast-in-place UHPC bridge is steam-cured on site for 1 to 3 days after cast-in-place construction, steam curing being carried out in a heat insulation measures, then the newly poured beam segment are wrapped well by an inner layer film and an outer layer aerogel insulation composite and steam-cured for 2 to 3 days above 90°

C.

6. The method of constructing the segmental joint of cast-in-place UHPC bridge beam according to claim 5, wherein in the case of steam curing, the temperature rising rate of a cavity formed by the formworks is less than or equal to 10°

C./h, the temperature is kept constant after reaching 90°

C., and after the temperature is kept constant for 48 hours, it is cooled to a normal temperature at a rate of 10°

C./h or less.

7. The method of constructing the segmental joint of cast-in-place UHPC bridge beam according to claim 5, wherein when the tongue-and-groove connection is provided with connecting reinforcing bars, a section of the connecting reinforcing bar at the tongue-and-groove connection of the first segment that is poured firstly is reserved at the outside, and the reserved connecting reinforcing bar is buried in the second segment that is poured subsequently.

8. The method of constructing the segmental joint of cast-in-place UHPC bridge beam according to claim 5, wherein at a connection with an existing beam segment, the inner layer film and the outer layer aerogel insulation composite extend to cover the existing beam for greater than or equal to 50 cm in length.