*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]].
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CENTER:Fig.1 Front of the steel piers
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**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]].
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CENTER:Fig.2 One of these fatigue cracks location and detail
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>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.
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CENTER:Fig.3 Bolted splice plates
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CENTER:Fig.4 Construction photograph of bolted splice plates
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**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)
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