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Experimental investigation of amplitude-dependent self-excited aerodynamic forces on a 5:1 rectangular cylinder

  • Wang, Qi (Department of Bridge Engineering, Southwest Jiaotong University) ;
  • Wu, Bo (Wind Engineering Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province) ;
  • Liao, Hai-li (Wind Engineering Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province) ;
  • Mei, Hanyu (Wind Engineering Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province)
  • Received : 2021.03.26
  • Accepted : 2021.06.21
  • Published : 2022.01.25
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Abstract

This paper presents a study on amplitude-dependent self-excited aerodynamic forces of a 5:1 rectangular cylinder through free vibration wind tunnel test. The sectional model was spring-supported in a single degree of freedom (SDOF) in torsion, and it is found that the amplitude of the free vibration cylinder model was not divergent in the post-flutter stage and was instead of various stable amplitudes varying with the wind speed. The amplitude-dependent aerodynamic damping is determined using Hilbert Transform of response time histories at different wind speeds in a smooth flow. An approach is proposed to extract aerodynamic derivatives as nonlinear functions of the amplitude of torsional motion at various reduced wind speeds. The results show that the magnitude of A2*, which is related to the negative aerodynamic damping, increases with increasing wind speed but decreases with vibration amplitude, and the magnitude of A3* also increases with increasing wind speed but keeps stable with the changing amplitude. The amplitude-dependent aerodynamic derivatives derived from the tests can also be used to estimate the post-flutter response of 5:1 rectangular cylinders with different dynamic parameters via traditional flutter analysis.

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Acknowledgement

This research was supported by the granted projects (NO. 51678508 and NO. 51778547) from the China Natural Science Funding.

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