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Vortex induced vibration and flutter instability of two parallel cable-stayed bridges

  • Junruang, Jirawat (Department of Civil Engineering, Thammasat University, Rangsit Campus) ;
  • Boonyapinyo, Virote (Department of Civil Engineering, Thammasat University, Rangsit Campus)
  • Received : 2019.09.02
  • Accepted : 2020.03.19
  • Published : 2020.06.25
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Abstract

The objective of this work was to investigate the interference effects of two-parallel bridge decks on aerodynamic coefficients, vortex-induced vibration, flutter instability and flutter derivatives. The two bridges have significant difference in cross-sections, dynamic properties, and flutter speeds of each isolate bridge. The aerodynamic static tests and aeroelastic tests were performed in TU-AIT boundary layer wind tunnel in Thammasat University (Thailand) with sectional models in a 1:90 scale. Three configuration cases, including the new bridge stand-alone (case 1), the upstream new bridge and downstream existing bridge (case 2), and the downstream new bridge and the upstream existing bridge (case 3), were selected in this study. The covariance-driven stochastic subspace identification technique (SSI-COV) was applied to identify aerodynamic parameters (i.e., natural frequency, structural damping and state space matrix) of the decks. The results showed that, interference effects of two bridges decks on aerodynamic coefficients result in the slightly reduction of the drag coefficient of case 2 and 3 when compared with case 1. The two parallel configurations of the bridge result in vortex-induced vibrations (VIV) and significantly lower the flutter speed compared with the new bridge alone. The huge torsional motion from upstream new bridge (case 2) generated turbulent wakes flow and resulted in vertical aerodynamic damping H1* of existing bridge becomes zero at wind speed of 72.01 m/s. In this case, the downstream existing bridge was subjected to galloping oscillation induced by the turbulent wake of upstream new bridge. The new bridge also results in significant reduction of the flutter speed of existing bridge from the 128.29 m/s flutter speed of the isolated existing bridge to the 75.35 m/s flutter speed of downstream existing bridge.

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Acknowledgement

The authors wish to express their sincere appreciations to Epsilon Co. Ltd. in Association with Wiecon Co. Ltd., and Expressway Authority of Thailand for their financial supports in wind tunnel test. The scholarship for Ph.D. Student of Faculty of Engineering, Thammasat University to the first author is also acknowledged.

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