ABSTRACT
Ireland’s “Design Specification for Bridge Decks” (1986) and the UK Highways Agency Standard BD81/02 (2002).
Due to the complexity of the determination of compressive membrane action effects on structural resistance, CMA remains unconsidered by most standard codes, like for example Eurocode 2. For this reason in this paper a procedure to evaluate compressive membrane action with multi-layered shell elements is presented. Non Linear Finite Element Analyses (NLFEA) are carried out with the ABAQUS Code and PARC_CL model implemented in the user subroutine UMAT.for.
