Wind Effects on Cable-Supported Bridges

Wind Effects on Cable-Supported Bridges

Author: You-Lin Xu

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2013-03-07

Total Pages: 772

ISBN-13: 1118188306

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As an in-depth guide to understanding wind effects on cable-supported bridges, this book uses analytical, numerical and experimental methods to give readers a fundamental and practical understanding of the subject matter. It is structured to systemically move from introductory areas through to advanced topics currently being developed from research work. The author concludes with the application of the theory covered to real-world examples, enabling readers to apply their knowledge. The author provides background material, covering areas such as wind climate, cable-supported bridges, wind-induced damage, and the history of bridge wind engineering. Wind characteristics in atmospheric boundary layer, mean wind load and aerostatic instability, wind-induced vibration and aerodynamic instability, and wind tunnel testing are then described as the fundamentals of the subject. State-of-the-art contributions include rain-wind-induced cable vibration, wind-vehicle-bridge interaction, wind-induced vibration control, wind and structural health monitoring, fatigue analysis, reliability analysis, typhoon wind simulation, non-stationary and nonlinear buffeting response. Lastly, the theory is applied to the actual long-span cable-supported bridges. Structured in an easy-to-follow way, covering the topic from the fundamentals right through to the state-of-the-art Describes advanced topics such as wind and structural health monitoring and non-stationary and nonlinear buffeting response Gives a comprehensive description of various methods including CFD simulations of bridge and vehicle loading Uses two projects with which the author has worked extensively, Stonecutters cable-stayed bridge and Tsing Ma suspension bridge, as worked examples, giving readers a practical understanding


Cable Vibrations in Cable-stayed Bridges

Cable Vibrations in Cable-stayed Bridges

Author: Elsa de Sá Caetano (autor.)

Publisher: IABSE

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 191

ISBN-13: 3857481153

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The present book provides a comprehensive survey on the governing phenomena of cable vibration, both associated with direct action of wind and rain: buffeting, vortex-shedding, wake effects, rain-wind vibration; and resulting from the indirect excitation through anchorage oscillation: external and parametric excitation. Methodologies for assessment of the effects of those phenomena are presented and illustrated by practical examples. Control of cable vibrations is then discussed and state-of-art results on the design of passive control devices are presented.


Aerodynamics of Large Bridges

Aerodynamics of Large Bridges

Author: Allan Larsen

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-10-19

Total Pages: 348

ISBN-13: 1351468049

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As bridges spans get longer, lighter and more slender, aerodynamic loads become a matter of serious study. This volume of proceedings reflect the co-operation between civil and mechanical engineering and meteorology in this field.


Bridge Aeroelasticity

Bridge Aeroelasticity

Author: J. A. Jurado

Publisher: WIT Press

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 369

ISBN-13: 184564056X

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This book is dedicated to the study of an aeroelastic phenomenon of cable supported long span bridges known as flutter, and proposes very innovative design methodologies, such as sensitivity analysis and optimization techniques, already utilized successfully in automobile and aerospace industries. The topic of long-span suspension and cable-stayed bridges is currently of great importance. These types of bridge pose great technical difficulties due to their slenderness and often great dimension. Therefore, these bridges tend to have problems caused by natural forces such as wind loads, some of which we have witnessed in our history, and we are currently seeing a very high incidence of bridge construction to overcome geographical obstacles such as bays, straits, or great estuaries. Therefore, it seems very appropriate to write a book showing the current capability of analysis and design, when up until now, the information could only be found partially in technical articles. This book will be useful for bridge design engineers as well as researchers working in the field. This book only requires previous knowledge of structural finite element models and dynamics, and it is advisable to have some previous knowledge in bridge engineering. Nevertheless, this book is very self-contained in such a way that all the information necessary to understand the theoretical developments is presented without the need of additional bibliography.


Issues in Calculus, Mathematical Analysis, and Nonlinear Research: 2013 Edition

Issues in Calculus, Mathematical Analysis, and Nonlinear Research: 2013 Edition

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Publisher: ScholarlyEditions

Published: 2013-05-01

Total Pages: 741

ISBN-13: 1490108807

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Issues in Calculus, Mathematical Analysis, and Nonlinear Research: 2013 Edition is a ScholarlyEditions™ book that delivers timely, authoritative, and comprehensive information about Mathematical Analysis. The editors have built Issues in Calculus, Mathematical Analysis, and Nonlinear Research: 2013 Edition on the vast information databases of ScholarlyNews.™ You can expect the information about Mathematical Analysis in this book to be deeper than what you can access anywhere else, as well as consistently reliable, authoritative, informed, and relevant. The content of Issues in Calculus, Mathematical Analysis, and Nonlinear Research: 2013 Edition has been produced by the world’s leading scientists, engineers, analysts, research institutions, and companies. All of the content is from peer-reviewed sources, and all of it is written, assembled, and edited by the editors at ScholarlyEditions™ and available exclusively from us. You now have a source you can cite with authority, confidence, and credibility. More information is available at http://www.ScholarlyEditions.com/.


Wind Effects on Cable-Supported Bridges

Wind Effects on Cable-Supported Bridges

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 2018-05

Total Pages: 334

ISBN-13: 9781642241983

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Cable stayed bridges have only become an established solution for long span structures over the last 60 years. This recent ascendency is primarily due to the development of reliable high strength steels for the cables and perhaps more importantly, the advent and widespread use of computers to analyze the complex mathematical models. Cable-stayed bridges are preferred these days as they provide much greater stiffness than the suspension bridge and deformations of the deck under live loads are reduced. A cable stayed bridge has one or more pylons, from which cables support the deck of the bridge. A distinctive feature of the bridge is the cables which run directly from tower to deck, normally forming a fan like pattern or a series of parallel line. The main objective of this book is to review the various wind effects and the different vibrations which are induced due to the wind on cable-stayed bridges. Cable-stayed bridges being more flexible, a proper wind study is inevitable.Wind Effects on Cable-Supported Bridges provides in-depth information to understanding wind effects on cable-stayed bridges; this book uses analytical, numerical and experimental methods to give readers a fundamental and practical understanding of the subject knowledge. It describes the structural behavior of cable-stayed bridges, identifies cable-stayed bridge elements, and discusses their role in supporting the structure. It presents methods of pre-sizing the stays and describes the mathematical procedure that allows optimal tensioning of forces in the stays, so that the structure complies with the design criteria. This book is intended to supplement information from introductory areas through to advanced topics currently being developed from research work. Cable-stayed bridges under wind loading exhibit dynamic behaviors that depend on the aero elastic forces and coupling among vibration modes.