main girder rib was 55 C.

The temperature of external and internal surface in rib was almost equal with
a largest difference of 8 C. On the other hand, for
practical situation, the top surface and lateral surface
had a temperature difference of 42 C with the centre
of main girder rib. The temperature of external and
internal surface in rib was almost equal with a largest
difference of 3 C. The practical temperature difference
was smaller to the theoretical one. Generally, theoretical and practical inside-outside temperature difference
between external and internal surface is following the
same rule.
The external and internal surface of main girder
rib had little temperature difference and the practical
temperature difference was smaller than the theoretical one. Two main reasons bring this consequence. The
first one, a relatively low value of heat transfer coefficient was taken in practical analysis to external and
internal surface of main girder rib. The second one,
the heat transfer coefficient of external surface was
almost equal to that of internal surface.
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CONCLUSIONS
1) There are three obvious stages in the variation
process, heating period, cooling period and stable period. When the construction situation and
mix proportion of concrete is constant, the larger
the thickness of concrete structure is, the higher
the temperature peak value will be and the later
the peak value will come. At the same time,
inside-outside temperature difference in one section is proportional to the thickness of concrete
structure, too.
2) When the outside environment and mix proportion of concrete is constant, inside-outside temperature difference in one section is proportional
to the heat transfer coefficient of surface. The
inside-outside temperature difference of main
girder rib has already reached to reaches 40 C,
so a drastic measure should be taken to prevent
cracks brought by early hydration heat.

3) Under the early hydration heat temperature field,

cracks are easy to appear in concrete main girder
of cable-stayed bridge. More attention should be
pay to this effect than the temperature gradient
effect by sunlight.
4) Contrasting field test with calculation of early
temperature field of concrete main girder, the
result is consistent to each other. It was proved that
the calculative result is high reliability. This result
could be used to the analysis of early hydration
heat temperature field of concrete bridge and it
can provide a reference for development of study
on early anti-cracking of concrete structures of
similar bridges.
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