Modelo bidimensional de transmisión de calor en tableros de puente

Abstract

The thermal effects on bridge decks has been a siibject of iilt,erest during the last two decades, beginning the analysis of heat conduction in the deck and the thermal conditions which deal with it. The numerical handling of the problem had been reduced up to the present time, to one-dimensional models of lieat transmission, which can only represent reasonably slab decks, mainly in llie central area. Altliough, tlie most important effects produced by thermal gradients are located in selections with thin walls and in the borders of the deck. The authors have developed a two-dimensional model of lieat conduction that reproduce the temperature field in a complete section of tlie bridge in a realistic manner