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    The document summarizes the λ-coefficient method for assessing fatigue loads on bridges due to traffic. The method uses λ coefficients that account for factors like stress range, traffic patterns, bridge lifespan, and vehicle interactions to determine an equivalent stress range that can be compared to design standards. The coefficients λ1, λ2, λ3, and λ4 are defined, where λ1 depends on stress history shape, λ2 converts between actual and reference traffic levels, λ3 considers bridge design life, and λ4 addresses simultaneous vehicle loading. Equations are provided to calculate the equivalent stress range from these λ coefficients and other fatigue parameters.

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    Chapter 4: Fatigue loads due to traffic

    2.3 The λ-coefficient method


    Besides the usual damage computations based on Palmgren-Miner rule, EN 1991-2
    also foresees a conventional simplified fatigue assessment method, said λ-coefficient method,
    based on λ damage equivalent factors, which are dependent on the material.
    The method, derived originally for railway bridges, is based for road bridges on
    fatigue model n. 3 (fatigue vehicle) and it is aimed to bring back fatigue verifications to
    conventional resistance checks, comparing a conventional equivalent stress range, ∆σeq,
    depending on appropriate λ-coefficients, with the detail category [3], [4].
    The equivalent stress range ∆σeq is given by
    ∆σ eq = λ1 ⋅ λ 2 ⋅ λ3 ⋅ λ 4 ⋅ ϕ fat ⋅ ∆σ p = λ ⋅ ϕ fat ⋅ ∆σ p , (1)

    where

    - ∆σ p = σ p , max − σ p , min is the maximum stress range induced by fatigue model n. 3;


    - λ1 is a coefficient depending on the shape and on the base length of the influence
    surface, i.e. on the number of secondary cycles in the stress history;
    - λ2 is a coefficient allowing to pass from reference traffic, used in fatigue model
    calibration, to expected traffic;
    - λ3 depends on the design life of the bridge;
    - λ4 takes into account vehicle interactions amongst lorries simultaneously crossing
    the bridge;
    - ϕfat is the equivalent dynamic magnification factor for fatigue verifications.

    λ1, represented in graphical or tabular form, is calculated in the calibration phase,


    comparing the damage due to the fatigue vehicle with the damage produced by a single stress
    cycle having the maximum stress range ∆σp.
    If m is the slope of S-N curve, it is
    1
     ∑ ni ⋅ ∆σ im m
    λ1 =  i  . (2)
     ∆σ mp 
     
    λ2 depends on the annual lorry flow and on traffic composition.
    In general, said N1 and Qm1 the flow and the equivalent weight of the actual traffic,

    ∑n ⋅Q i i
    m

    Qm1 = m i
    , (3)
    ∑n i
    i

    and N0 and Q0 the flow and the equivalent vehicle weight of the reference traffic, it results
    1
    Q  N m
    λ2 = k ⋅ m1 ⋅  1  . (4)
    Q0  N0 
    In equation (4) k represents a conversion parameter, given by
    Def Q0
    k= ⋅ , (5)
    Dv Qm1

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