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Wind Resistant Performance and Countermeasures for Cable-stayed Bridges with Open-section Girder

 Wind Resistant Performance and Countermeasures for Cable-stayed Bridges with Open-section Girder
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Presented at IABSE Conference: Structural Engineering: Providing Solutions to Global Challenges, Geneva, Switzerland, September 2015, published in , pp. 204-211
DOI: 10.2749/222137815818357124
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Even though open-section girders have been widely used in long-span cable-stayed bridges, their bluff shape and lower torsion stiffness generally lead to poor aerodynamic performance compared with ...
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Author(s): (State Key Laboratory for Disaster Reduction in Civil Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, China)
(State Key Laboratory for Disaster Reduction in Civil Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, China)
(State Key Laboratory for Disaster Reduction in Civil Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, China)
Medium: conference paper
Language(s): English
Conference: IABSE Conference: Structural Engineering: Providing Solutions to Global Challenges, Geneva, Switzerland, September 2015
Published in:
Page(s): 204-211 Total no. of pages: 8
Page(s): 204-211
Total no. of pages: 8
Year: 2015
DOI: 10.2749/222137815818357124
Abstract:

Even though open-section girders have been widely used in long-span cable-stayed bridges, their bluff shape and lower torsion stiffness generally lead to poor aerodynamic performance compared with more streamlined box girders. Based on a cable-stayed bridge with a main span of 400m, the flutter and vortex-induced vibration (VIV) performance of the open-section girder were investigated and evaluated, and different kinds of aerodynamic control measures were proposed to suppress VIV of the blunt open-section girder. The emphasis was put on the effectiveness of each measure on VIV mitigation, including wind fairings, apron boards, horizontal guide plates, vertical stabilizers, and airflow-depressing boards. Moreover, the influence of each VIV suppression-oriented aerodynamic measure on flutter performance of the open-section girder was also checked, and the optimal control scheme to improve the aerodynamic performance of open-section girder was finally achieved.

Keywords:
cable-stayed bridge vortex-induced vibration aerodynamic countermeasure flutter instability open-section girder

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