The shear warping deformation state of wide box girder is taken as the research object, the additional deflection is selected as the generalized displacement, and two overall correction coefficients for the warping center and stress self-balance are introduced on the box section. Starting from the geometric relationship between the lateral displacement and additional deflection for the box flange, the modified displacement mode for shear lag was established by comprehensively using the generalized coordinate method, the warping shear deformation coordination condition, and the equilibrium differential equation. A 8-degree-of-freedom beam-segment finite element method for shear lag is proposed using the energy variational method, and the correctness of the modified analysis method is verified through the examples of continuous box girder with equal or variable cross-section. Research has shown that the modified analysis method has generality, and when ignoring the correction of the warping center and the lateral displacement of the flange, it can degenerate into the traditional analysis methods. The calculation results of the modified analysis method are in good agreement with the finite element solutions, the difference ratio between the results of the traditional analysis method and the finite element increases with the increase of width-span ratio, and the influence of variable cross-section box girders is particularly significant. For a three span variable cross-section continuous box girder, the width-span ratio is 0.42, the difference ratio between the shear lag coefficient calculated by the traditional analysis method and the finite element result is 20.65% at the intersection of top and web plate for mid-span section, corresponding to a difference ratio of 8.17% between the calculation results of the standard method and the modified analysis method. Fully demonstrate that traditional analysis methods are not applicable to the analysis of shear lag effects in wide box girders, and that the revision of standard methods should consider the two main factors for lateral displacement of flanges and differences in warping centers.
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