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The earth pressure of backfill behind the abutment of integral abutment jointless bridge (IAJB) varies substantially as the bridge girder is easily subjected to load due to cycling temperature. This earth pressure that increases continuously due to seasonal variations in temperature, results in the actual earth pressure of the backfill is much larger than the designed earth pressure, and the accumulative deformations in abutment and pile emerge. Therefore, the crucial problems with IAJBs include effectively reducing the earth pressure behind the abutment, eliminating the accumulative deformation, and reducing the horizontal thrust of the girder under temperature load. Based on the specimens of abutment H-shaped steel pile, a low-cyclic, pseudo-static experiment was carried out on abutment pile soil interactions in IAJBs that incorporate expanded polystyrenes (EPS). The hysteresis curves and their skeletons of the abutment and pile, the horizontal deformations along the depth direction of the soil, and the angles of the abutments were achieved. The influence on abutment-pile-soil interaction behavior was preliminarily studied by different thickness of EPS fillers. The results of these investigations indicate that the horizontal thrust on the abutment due to girder expansion is reduced effectively after the burial of the EPS fillers behind the abutment. Specifically, the thrust reduces 31% when the thickness of the EPS filling is 15 cm. The accumulative deformation of the pile and abutment decreases as the thickness of the EPS filling increases, especially at the depth of 0.4 m below the top of the pile, where the deformation reduces 74.3%. In addition, the EPS filling behind the abutment remarkably reduces the constraints on the rotation angle by the backfill. Nevertheless, the deformations under a single step of displacement loading increase by a small amount after the burial of the EPS fillers. These fillers provide adequate elasticity and flexibility, and they exhibit reasonable mechanical properties under cycling temperature loads. © 2019, Editorial Department of China Journal of Highway and Transport. All right reserved.
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China Journal of Highway and Transport
ISSN: 1001-7372
Year: 2019
Issue: 7
Volume: 32
Page: 77-89
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