Damping flutter oscillation of suspension bridges

The damping in suspension bridges is

Reliability analysis of suspension bridges against buffeting failure

A reliability analysis of suspension bridges against buffeting failure due to gustiness of wind velocity is carried out using the concept of PRA (probabilistic risk analysis) procedure. For this purpose, the bending stresses at the critical nodes of the bridge deck are obtained for buffeting forces using a spectral analysis technique and a finite element approach. For the purpose of reliability...

Design of Additional Damping Controllers with Subsynchronous Oscillation Damping Effectiveness

When we research the suppression problem of subsynchronous oscillation based on time domain simulation method, we find the appropriate parameters for phase compensation and amplitude gaining links are important to the damping effect of the additional damping controllers, supplementary excitation damping controller(SEDC) and subsynchronous supplementary damping controller(SSDC). Some scholars at...

Semi-active damping systems for railway bridges

In this paper, a semi-active control system for vibration mitigation of railway bridges is presented. The real time frequency response is estimated using a short-time Fourier transform, employing curve fitting to relevant peaks for increased accuracy. A control algorithm developed in MATLAB® is linked to a commercial FE-software, facilitating application on arbitrary structures. A numerical stu...

Three examples of flutter analysis of cable-stayed bridges

There are multiple configurations permitted for a cable stayed bridge such as the number of spans, tower shapes, and cable arrangements. Therefore it is always important to study the behaviour of these types of structures against strong winds so that aeroelastic instabilities do not appear. This paper contains detailed aeroelastic analyses of three cable stayed bridges of very different configu...