+Advanced Search

Recent Challenges and Advances on Study of Wind-induced Vibrations of Bridge Cables
Author:
Affiliation:

Fund Project:

  • Article
  • |
  • Figures
  • |
  • Metrics
  • |
  • Reference
  • |
  • Related
  • |
  • Cited by
  • |
  • Materials
    Abstract:

    With the increase of bridge main span,the slenderness ratio of the cables is getting larger and the fre? quency is getting lower and lower. Several new types of wind-induced vibrations,including wind-induced vibration of the hangers of suspension bridges,high-order vortex-induced vibration of stay cables,and galloping vibration of bridge cables attached with lighting lamps,were observed on real bridges. Due to these new challenge,the mecha? nisms and the corresponding countermeasures were carefully studied by using field observations,wind tunnel tests and theoretical analyses. The results show that the mechanism of the wind-induced vibration of the hangers of sus? pension bridges is complex and the effective measures on stay cables of cable-stayed bridges are not suitable for miti? gating the wind-induced vibration of the hangers. It seems that rigid spacers are an effective measure to reduce the relative vibration between the cables of the hanger. Large amplitude of vortex-induced vibration of stay cables is ob? served on several long-span cable-stayed bridges,which increase the difficulty of vibration control. It appears that installing two dampers at the end of the cable is an effective way to simultaneously reduce both the high-order vortexinduced vibration and the low-order rain-wind-induced vibration of stay cables. Galloping vibration can be easily evoked by installing lighting lamps on stay cables. This kind of cable vibration can be effectively mitigated by in? creasing structural damping and changing the aerodynamic configuration of the lamps.

    Reference
    Related
    Cited by
Article Metrics
  • PDF:
  • HTML:
  • Abstract:
  • Cited by:
Get Citation
History
  • Received:
  • Revised:
  • Adopted:
  • Online: June 06,2022
  • Published: