The effect of skewness on the behaviour of the bridge deck is studied for skew angles 15°, 30°, 45°and 60° and the radius varying from be 60m to 400m are compared with simply supported with straight and no skew angle.
Simply supported single span bridge is being used in this study. Longitudinal moment, reaction at supports, deflections, transverse moments and stresses are computed by FEM and results are compared with different skew angles and various radius curvature. In present work, the change in skew angles and the curvature is studied by finite element method (FEM) as part of analysis with the help of MIDAS CIVIL software.
The individual one has their own different effects on the behavior of the bridge system. The skew and the horizontally curved girder in bridge makes the analysis and design of bridge deck intricate.
