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Flutter stability of a long-span suspension bridge during erection under skew wind

  • Xin-Jun Zhang (College of Civil Engineering, Zhejiang University of Technology) ;
  • Fu-Bing Ying (College of Civil Engineering, Zhejiang University of Technology) ;
  • Chen-Yang Zhao (College of Civil Engineering, Zhejiang University of Technology) ;
  • Xuan-Rui Pan (College of Civil Engineering, Zhejiang University of Technology)
  • Received : 2020.12.28
  • Accepted : 2023.04.20
  • Published : 2023.07.25
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Abstract

To ensure the wind stability of a long-span suspension bridge during deck erection under skew wind, based on the aerostatic and self-excited aerodynamic force models under skew wind, a computational approach of refined flutter analysis for long-span bridges under skew wind is firstly established, in which the effects of structural nonlinearity, the static wind action and full-mode coupling etc are fully considered, and the corresponding computational procedure is programmed. By taking the Runyang suspension bridge over the Yangtze River as example, the flutter stability of the bridge in completion under skew wind is then analyzed with the aerodynamic parameters of a similar bridge deck measured from the sectional model wind tunnel test under skew wind. Finally, through simulating the girder segments erected symmetrically from the midspan to towers, from the towers to midspan and simultaneously from the towers and midspan to the quarter points, respectively, the evolutions of flutter stability limits during the deck erection under skew wind are investigated numerically, the favorable aerodynamically deck erection sequence is proposed, and the influences of skew wind and static wind effect on the flutter stability of suspension bridge under construction are ascertained.

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Acknowledgement

The authors gratefully acknowledge the financial support for this research provided by Zhejiang Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. LGF22E080018).

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