ABSTRACT

Semi analytical finite strip analysis was extended to circularly curved slab bridges by Y. K. Cheung (1969B), to curved box girder bridges by Meyer and Scordelis (1970) and by Y. K. Cheung and M. S. Cheung (1971), to skewed slab bridges by Brown and Ghali (1972), and to skewed box girder bridges by Brown and Ghali (1975). The compound strip method (Chapter 7) was first applied to the analysis of circularly curved slab girder bridges by Puckett and Lang (1986). The basic procedures in all these applications are presented in this chapter, followed by numerical examples.