Due to aging of the Slovenian bridging structures safety analyses of critical structures are increasingly required for the critical structures. One of the major load-bearing factors for reinforced concrete cross-section and consequently one of the key factors for conducting safety analysis is the amount of built –in reinforcement. The thesis compares six building standards that have been in use in Slovenia since World War II until today. The standards under consideration for determining the traffic load of bridges are Yugoslav PTP 5, German DIN 1072 and Slovenian SIST EN 1991-2. The relevant load for dimensioning the superstructure is generally the traffic load, which is not the case for supporting structure, where earthquake load is the dominant one. The considered regulations and standards for determining earthquake load are the Yugoslav regulations from 1964 and 1981, and the Slovenian standard SIST EN 1998.
The first part of the thesis presents the individual standards and procedure for determining the load. A fictitious reinforced concrete overpass over four fields has been selected as the reference object, which is widespread on the Slovenian motorways. Further, a numerical model of the bridge that was constructed in Midas Civil software is presented. The second part presents the loads of individual standards numerical analysis results in the form of internal forces and moments. For three characteristic sections the relevant combination of internal forces and moments for dimensioning, which took place in two sets, is determined. For the standards prior to the Eurocode standards, the tolerable stress method was used, which was replaced by the widespread limit state method in the early 1990s. After the description of both methods, the necessary reinforcement for the selected cross sections is calculated. In the last part, analysis of the obtained results is presented, where comparison of the influence of the standard and the method for determining the load on the final value of the reinforcement is made for the selected overpass.
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