Bridge structures enable us to span natural and artificial barriers and are the key meaning for
connecting and the agglomeration of people. Because of their importance it is necessary to design and
build them in a way that they even in a case of extreme natural events (e.g. a strong earthquake) keep
their purpose and allow communication with affected areas. Because strong earthquakes are a
comperatively rare event, we do not assure structures within the process of designing to have an elastic
response, because of the uneconomical aspect. Usually we assure structures a bit smaller load capacity
and with that we allow damage within chosen elements of the structure that can be renovated after a
strong earthquake. Ability of the structure to withstand damage (plastic deformation) is called
structure ductility. When designing bridge structures we usually allow plastic deformation in columns
at the connection with the foundation and/or at the connection with the slab. In this master's thesis we
show a procedure of designing a typical short reinforced concrete bridge in accordance with the
standard Eurocode 8/2 that contains such approach for designing structures. Even though that bridge
response in case of strong earthquakes is explicitly nonlinear, design procedures generally still base on
results of a linear-elastic analysis. Because of this, we also evaluated the seismic response of the
structure with help of the simplified nonlinear analysis, which is based on a pushover analysis that was
proposed with the N2 method. This method contains the nonlinear static analysis of the structure
model with multiple degrees of freedom (MDOF system) and the nonlinear dynamic analysis of the
equivalent structure model with a single degree of freedom (SDOF system). Because the standard does
not foresee the explicit control of the seizmic risk, we have to evaluate the safety of the structure with
comparison of in advance chosen target collapse risk with the calculated collapse risk. In this master's
thesis the safety of the structure was evaluated with a more demanding incremental dynamic analysis
IDA and recently proposed 3R method, that tells us if the structure target collapse risk is exceeded.
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