Diseño y simulación de un puente de acero mediante SAP 2000

Abstract

This work focuses on the Design and Simulation of a Steel Pedestrian Bridge taxable under the rules of the Metropolitan District of Quito in charge of Empresa Metropolitana de Obras Públicas EMOP-Q and the alignment of the AASHTO standard (American Standard Building Roads and Highways). To calculate the pedestrian bridge has been considered live loads recommended by the standard, to additionally took into account the load acting on the structure sisma calculated under the Ecuadorian Code of Construction in Chapter 12 relating to Design Spectrum Seismic Hazard Minimum Requirements and Calculations for Earthquake Resistant Design. The shape of the structural calculation was by applying the equation of Clapeyron five laps and the calculation of moments by the open-chain method developed by Mr. Alejandro Segovia professor at Universidad Central del Ecuador, applied primarily for closed structures displaceable in our case by the action of basal cut horizontally at the threshold for seismic effect. The results have been obtained by different calculation methods have been tested with the help of SAP 2000, the minimum variation in results is that this package uses the Finite Element Theory being that much more developed as opposed to traditional methods of calculation.