Three super-span composite box girders with corrugated steel webs (CSW) under combined bending and torsion were designed and experimentally investigated in this paper, and the failure modes, torque-twist curves, bending moment-displacement curves, and strain distribution laws were obtained. Based on the verified finite element analysis (FEA) method, a parametric analysis was carried out. The bending-torsional relationship curves and the simplified calculation method for capacity were proposed according to the failure modes. The results show that the failure modes of the composite box girders are the bending and torsional failure, with crushing of the concrete top slab and spalling of the concrete bottom slab, respectively. Global buckling of bending failure occurs in the bending-shear-torsional section, whereas that of torsional failure is concentrated in the bending-torsional section. The bending moment enhances the torsional strength of the composite box girders within a certain range. The proposed bending-torsional relationship curves and the simplified calculation method both provide high accuracy, with a maximum error of less than 6%.
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