Abstract
The shear performance of high damping rubber bridge bearings is influenced by low temperature. Therefore, getting to know the internal temperature of rubber bridge bearings and the relation with ambient temperature has an important meaning to the design of bridge structure. In this paper, two kinds of full-scale rubber bridge bearings were tested and checked at four different type ambient temperatures. Comparison of the experiments and results of transient heat conduction analysis was performed, and it was checked that the accurate estimation of internal temperature is possible by the numerical analysis. Furthermore, it was also shown that these results could be estimated by simpler numerical formulation.
