CONTENTS

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT...i
ABSTRACT...........ii
LIST OF FIGURES...........iv
LIST OF TABLES.vi
NOTATIONS&ABBREVIATIONS...
CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION
1.1 What is an arch? ............................................................................................1
1.2 Comparison of Arch Bridge with Other Bridge Types..............................3
1.3 Brief History of Arch Bridges ....4
1.4 Types of Arch Bridges.5
1.5 Structural Analysis of Arch Bridges...8
1.5.1 Three hinged arch
1.5.2 Two hinged arch
1.6. Buckling of Arch Rib.13
1.7 Objectives and outline of the thesis16
CHAPTER 2 LITERATURE REVIEW
2.1 Pippard et al: Elastic theory for arch bridges.20
2.2 Robin Gurney Charlwood: Lateral stability of arches...21
2.3 Hendry et al.: Full scale and model arch test.21
2.4 Harvey & Smith: Mechanism method with program ARCHIE....22
2.5 Choo and Gong: The MAFEA suite..22
2.6 Loo & Yang: Cracking and failure analysis......23
2.7 Heyman: The plastic method and mechanism approach..23
2.8 Melbourne et al. : Rigid-block analysis ...23
2.9 Cai JianGuo, Feng Jian, Chen Yao & Huang LiFeng...24
2.10 Mario M. Attard Jianbei Zhu David C. Kellermann:. ..24
In-plane buckling of prismatic funicular arches
2.11 Concluding remarks.25
CHAPTER 3 DEFLECTION THEORY ON ARCHES
3.1 Governing differential Equation of arches27
3.2 Algorithm for Arch bridge analysis .31
 3.3 Influence lines for two hinged parabolic arch.35
3.4 Deflections of the stiffening girder..37
3.5 Influence lines of Two-hinged parabolic Arch..............................................40
3.6 Influence lines for fixed parabolic arch ............43
3.7 .Mode shapes and Frequencies of vibration .. 47
CHAPTER 4 IN PLANE STABILITY OF ARCHES
4.1 Linear and Non linear elastic stability55
4.2 Numerical analysis using MATLAB programming .56
4.3 Symmetrical Loadings on Symmetrical Arches .60
4.4 Unsymmetrical Loading.. ..62
CHAPTER 5: CONCLUSION 64
REFERENCES 66

LIST OF FIGURES
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Bending moment influence for elastic condition by MATLAB

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 LIST OF TABLES
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Table 5.1 Building Description 21
Table 5.2 Equivalent width of Diagonal strut 23
Table 5.3 Time period of Buildings under consideration 24
Modal Participation Factor in Longitudinal and Transverse
Table 5.4 direction 24
Table 5.5 Displacement of Building under Earthquake loading in X-direction 25
Table 5.6 Displacement of Building under Earthquake loading in Y-direction 25
Inter-storey drift of Building under Earthquake loading in X-
Table 5.7 direction 26
Inter-storey drift of Building under Earthquake loading in Y-
Table 5.8 direction 26
Table 5.9 Performance level of Buildings in Pushover Analysis 30
Table 5.10 Performance Point of Buildings 30