Procedure Inversion Effect Analysis of Final System Transformation of Prestressed Concrete Continuous Girder Bridge

When the cantilever construction is adopted by the prestressed concrete continuous girder bridge, the order of two key procedures between removing temporary support and tensing remanent prestressed cable is used to be ignored. In order to study the influence of procedure inversion, the influences on bridge shape, stress distribution and prestressing loss were calculated for one common prestressed continuous concrete box girder bridge by MIDAS CIVIL 2006, respectively. The obtained result presents that: the influence on the bridge shape and the prestressing loss are not apparent, but the influence on the stress distribution is serious; the maximal compressive stress of procedure inversion is more 42.3% than common construction procedure only by tensing the remaining steel beams at box girder; especially, the combining area between the box girder and temporary support is easy to pull out. So, the procedure inversion construction method cant be accepted.