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A simple and practical control method for the reasonable completion state of stiffened beam based on double control indexes of deformation and stress was proposed. In this paper, the long-term effects of shrinkage and creep were taken into consideration, and a finite element model was built to study the change in the stiffening girder stress during operation. The mid-span deflection of the middle span sustained increasing and the compression stress in the bottom slab of the stiffening girder consistently decreased under the effects of shrinkage and creep. The speed changes from fast to slow and tends to become stable in 50 years. Furthermore, stiffening girders under the action of hanger force, dead weight, cable force, and pre-stress were investigated to study the mechanism of the stress change during operation. Based on the safety stress state of stiffening girders after 50 years, a new control method for the reasonable finished state was proposed. Moreover, the total cross-section of stiffening girders maintained the compression stress state during the developing processes of shrinkage and creep in 50 years. Finally, the utilization in the Hunan Road self-anchored symmetry suspension bridge verified the simplicity and practicality of this new control method and confirms that the method can be implemented to guide the design and construction of the similar bridges.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/sym14050935","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,5,4]],"date-time":"2022-05-04T10:49:30Z","timestamp":1651661370000},"page":"935","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":8,"title":["Research on the Control Method for the Reasonable State of Self-Anchored Symmetry Suspension Bridge Stiffening Girders"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"14","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-1459-4538","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Maojun","family":"Duan","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Civil Engineering, Nanjing Forestry University, Longpan Road 159, Nanjing 210037, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Xiaocan","family":"Suo","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Civil Engineering, Nanjing Forestry University, Longpan Road 159, Nanjing 210037, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-3315-6699","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Fenghui","family":"Dong","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Civil Engineering, Nanjing Forestry University, Longpan Road 159, Nanjing 210037, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Jianhui","family":"Li","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Civil Engineering, Nanjing Forestry University, Longpan Road 159, Nanjing 210037, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Guofen","family":"Li","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Civil Engineering, Nanjing Forestry University, Longpan Road 159, Nanjing 210037, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,5,4]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"112421","DOI":"10.1016\/j.compstruct.2020.112421","article-title":"A novel seawater and sea sand concrete filled FRP-carbon steel composite tube col-umn: Concept and behavior","volume":"246","author":"Zhang","year":"2020","journal-title":"Compos. 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