In resent years, horizontally curved steel - concrete composite girder bridges have been employed as one of highway bridges. The behavior of curved composite I - girders has been studied by several researchers. However, the design of shear connectors for curved composite box girders has not been prescribed in the specification. This paper presents a finite strip analysis for horizontally curved composite girder bridges with incomplete interaction. This is applied to the analysis of curved one and two box girders and curved plate girders. The numerical results are compared with the test and computational values based on the finite element and finite strip method by other researchers, and found to be in good agreement. The behavior of curved composite box girder bridges with incomplete interaction is discussed based on the analytical results by the proposed method.
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