2015 Volume 61A Pages 473-485
The fatigue damages have been appeared both the rib plates and vertical stiffeners near the floor frame support on the non-composite stiffening trusses suspension bridge after around 30 years of service. In order to investigate the cause of fatigue damages and to propose the repair methods, both the field measurement and FE analysis have been performed. As the results, the cause of the fatigue damages is that the sliding function of the line bearings is disappeared due to corrosion, and the deteriorated line bearings should be replaced to new ones.