*Steel Pier with Box section on The Metropokitan Expressway [#ffb8071e] **1.Field of application [#e1ace4ba] >Steel pier at The Third line on The Metropokitan Expressway, Japan.&br; **2.Circumstances of Repair [#k59c44a2] >Fatigue cracks were found in welded joints ,which were the corner of the steel bridge pier,in 1997. **3.Types of structure [#ke4ee51e] >Front views of the steel piers are shown in [[Fig.1>#fig1]]. &br; CENTER:&aname(fig1);&attachref(./pier_shutoko_1.jpg,20%);&br; &br; CENTER:Fig.1 Front of the steel piers &br; **4.Details of loading [#q6635827] >Fluctuating loads due to highway live load. **5.Description of damage [#l8a61325] >One of these fatigue cracks location and detail are shown in [[Fig.2>#fig2]]. &br; &br; CENTER:&aname(fig2);&attachref(./pier_shutoko_2.jpg,20%);&br; &br; CENTER:Fig.2 One of these fatigue cracks location and detail &br; &br; >Causes of fatigue cracks were as follows: -Lack of fusion in the double bevel groove type welded joint which connected the transverse beam flange to the colum flange. -Large cyclic stress due to live load. **6.Repair method applied [#k9ac90d6] >As the temporally-repair,bolted splice plates([[Fig.3>#fig3]],[[Fig.4>#fig4]]) were installed on the box webs of the connections.This repairing decreased the measured stress by about 50%,so that these piers could be used safely temporally.But it was needed to remove all the fatigue cracks as the final repair. &br; CENTER:&aname(fi3);&attachref(./pier_shutoko_3.jpg,20%);&br; &br; CENTER:Fig.3 Bolted splice plates &br; &br; CENTER:&aname(fi4);&attachref(./pier_shutoko_4.jpg,40%);&br; &br; CENTER:Fig.4 Construction photograph of bolted splice plates &br; **Reference [#jfcdb670] >Hisashi MORIKAWA,Tetsuhiro SHIMOZATO,Chitoshi MIKI and Atsushi ICHIKAWA,STUDY ON FATIGUE CRACKING IN STEEL BRIDGE PIERS WITH BOX SECTION AND TEMPORALLY REPAIRING,'''Journal of JSCE''',No.703/I-59,pp177-183,2002.4(In Japanese) &br;