Time‐variant seismic fragility of offshore continuous beam bridges based on collapse analysis

Abstract

In this paper, the concrete carbonation and chloride‐induced corrosion of bridge structure in the service period under the offshore environment were comprehensively considered. Based on the time‐varying degradation effect of mechanical properties of materials and continuous damage model, the time‐varying seismic fragility of bridge components was analyzed with using incremental dynamic analysis. The time‐varying brittleness curves of the bridge system and components were established according to the results of the analysis. According to the analysis of the time‐varying fragility of the structure in the complete damage state, the collapse working conditions of the bridge structure and a method of quantifying the fragility coefficient were proposed. The results show that the fragility coefficient of the bridge system is higher than that of the components in the whole life cycle, and all of them increase with the increase of the bridge service cycle. When the peak acceleration of ground is small, the removing of 1# pier is more fragile. When reaching the design service life, the fragility coefficient of the bridge system is about 30% higher than that of the original state. The fragility coefficient of the bridge system in removing of 1# is the maximum value between three working conditions.