Research Article

Transformer-Enhanced Traffic Load Simulation for Wear Evaluation of Bridge Expansion Joint

Table 1

Verification of the static behavior of the established FEM.

Static test (mm)FEM calculation (mm)Relative error (%)

1st caseNorth end463.10422.03−8.9
1st caseSouth end472.00437.81−7.2
2nd caseNorth end10.509.40−10.5
2nd caseSouth end7.308.2913.6