• 한국정보통신설비학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보통신설비학회 2009년도 정보통신설비 학술대회
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• pp.49-53
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• 2009

If you are installing communications cables in the pipeline based on the kind of cable installation tension within the allowed range of the tension must be maintained. The tension of the installation affected by the cable types, cable jacketed status, cross-sectional shape of the pipeline, the substance present in the pipeline, pipeline linear, the direction of the cable is installed. Depending on the size of the cable installation tension fatal influence on the quality of communication, or, at worst, the cable can be cut. In this paper, test bed for building a pipeline and using optical cable and such cable tension was measured. Freedom of access to the pipeline used in the experiment, and installed in conjunction with the cable tension was measured. It possible for the cable installation to determine whether a duplicate, and have compared the actual measured tension value and the theoretical expression.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제20권3호
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• pp.363-380
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• 2005

The cable tension plays an important role in the construction, assessment and long-term health monitoring of cable structures. The cable vibration equation is nonlinear if cable sag and bending stiffness are included. The engineering implementation of a vibration-based cable tension evaluation is mostly carried out by the simple taut string theory. However, the simple theory may cause unacceptable errors in many applications since the cable sag and bending stiffness are ignored. From the practical point of view, it is necessary to have empirical formulas if they are simple and yet accurate. Based on the solutions by means of energy method and fitting the exact solutions of cable vibration equations where the cable sag and bending stiffness are respectively taken into account, the empirical formulas are proposed in the paper to estimate cable tension based on the cable fundamental frequency only. The applicability of the proposed formulas is verified by comparing the results with those reported in the literatures and with the experimental results carried out on the stay cables in the laboratory. The proposed formulas are straightforward and they are convenient for practical engineers to fast estimate the cable tension by the cable fundamental frequency.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제22권4호
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• pp.295-311
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• 2021

본 연구에서는 사장교 케이블에 대한 장력계측장치의 현장적용성에 대한 실험을 수행하였다. 사장교 케이블의 장력을 추정하기 위해서 진동법을 이용하였으며 대상교량에 대해서 케이블의 가진을 통해서 모드특성을 분석하였고 케이블의 장력을 추정하기 위한 계측장치로는 GTDL360, NI Module, 9 Axes Motion Sensor등을 적용하였고 5개의 대상교량에 대해서 상기 계측장치들을 이용하여 케이블의 모드특성을 분석하여 케이블장력측정실험의 적정성을 평가하고 케이블의 장력을 추정하였다. 또한 5개의 대상교량에 대해서 수치해석을 실시하여 케이블의 고유진동수 및 케이블장력을 해석하였다. 현장 계측결과에 의한 케이블의 추정장력과 수치해석에 의한 케이블의 추정장력을 비교하여 현장계측방법의 적정성을 판단하였으며 분석결과 현장 계측에 의한 케이블의 계측장력과 해석에 의한 추정장력은 오차범위내에 있어서 상기 계측장치들을 현장에 적용하여도 무방할 것으로 판단된다. 현장실증교량의 가속도 기반의 케이블 추정장력과 수치해석에 의한 해석장력과의 값을 비교분석한 결과 값이 허용범위 내로 가속도 기반의 케이블 추정장력값은 적정한 것으로 판단된다. 또한, 현장적용성 분석결과 센서의 설치위치 및 기상조건의 제한 등 계측장치의 한계점이 존재하므로 추후 케이블 스마트 장력계측시스템에 관한 지속적인 후속연구가 필요할 것으로 판단된다.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제68권4호
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• pp.399-408
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• 2018

Cable supported structures have been widely used in civil engineering. Cable tension estimation has great importance in cable supported structures' analysis, ranging from design to construction and from inspection to maintenance. Even though the Bernoulli-Euler beam element is commonly used in the traditional finite element method for calculation of frequency and cable tension estimation, many elements must be meshed to achieve accurate results, leading to expensive computation. To improve the accuracy and efficiency, a dynamic finite element method for estimation of cable tension is proposed. In this method, following the dynamic stiffness matrix method, frequency-dependent shape functions are adopted to derive the stiffness and mass matrices of an exact beam element that can be used for natural frequency calculation and cable tension estimation. An iterative algorithm is used for the exact beam element to determine both the exact natural frequencies and the cable tension. Illustrative examples show that, compared with the cable tension estimation method using the conventional beam element, the proposed method has a distinct advantage regarding the accuracy and the computational time.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제56권6호
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• pp.939-957
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• 2015

In this paper, a new approach based on the continuum model is proposed to estimate the main cable tension force of suspension bridges from measured natural frequencies. This approach considered the vertical vibration of a main cable hinged at both towers and supported by an elastic girder and hangers along its entire length. The equation reflected the relationship between vibration frequency and horizontal tension force of a main cable was derived. To avoid to generate the additional cable tension force by sag-extensibility, the analytical solution of characteristic equation for anti-symmetrical vibration mode of the main cable was calculated. Then, the estimation of main cable tension force was carried out by anti-symmetric characteristic frequency vector. The errors of estimation due to characteristic frequency deviations were investigated through numerical analysis of the main cable of Taizhou Bridge. A field experiment was conducted to verify the proposed approach. Through measuring and analyzing the responses of a main cable of Taizhou Bridge under ambient excitation, the horizontal tension force of the main cable was identified from the first three odd frequencies. It is shown that the estimated results agree well with the designed values. The proposed approach can be used to conduct the long-term health monitoring of suspension bridges.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제29권3호
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• pp.475-484
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• 2022

The loss of cable tension for civil infrastructure reduces structural bearing capacity and causes harmful deformation of structures. Currently, most of the structural health monitoring (SHM) approaches for cables rely on contact transducers. This paper proposes a cable tension identification technology using percussion sound, which provides a fast determination of steel cable tension without physical contact between cables and sensors. Notably, inspired by the concept of tensioning strings for piano tuning, this proposed technology predicts cable tension value by deep learning assisted classification of "percussion" sound from tapping a steel cable. To simulate the non-linear mapping of human ears to sound and to better quantify the minor changes in the high-frequency bands of the sound spectrum generated by percussions, Mel-frequency cepstral coefficients (MFCCs) were extracted as acoustic features to train the deep learning network. A convolutional neural network (CNN) with four convolutional layers and two global pooling layers was employed to identify the cable tension in a certain designed range. Moreover, theoretical and finite element methods (FEM) were conducted to prove the feasibility of the proposed technology. Finally, the identification performance of the proposed technology was experimentally investigated. Overall, results show that the proposed percussion-based technology has great potentials for estimating cable tension for in-situ structural safety assessment.

• Structural Monitoring and Maintenance
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• 제10권4호
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• pp.361-379
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• 2023

In cable structure maintenance, particularly for cable-stayed bridges, cable safety assessment relies on estimating cable tension. Conventionally, in Japan, cable tension is estimated from the natural frequencies of the cable using the higher-order vibration method. In recent years, dampers have been installed on cables to reduce cable vibrations. Because the higher-order vibration method is a method for damper-free cables, the damper must be removed to measure the natural frequencies of a cable without a damper. However, cables on some cable-stayed bridges have two dampers: one on the girder side and another on the tower side. Notably, removing and reinstalling the damper on the tower side are considerably more time- and labor-intensive. This paper introduces a tension estimation method for cables with two dampers, using natural frequencies. The proposed method was validated through numerical simulation and experiment. In the numerical tests, without measurement error in the natural frequencies, the maximum estimation error among 100 models was 3.3%. With measurement error of 2%, the average estimation error was within 5%, with a maximum error of 9%. The proposed method has high accuracy because the higher-order vibration method for a damper-free cable still has an estimation error of 5%. The experimental verification emphasizes the importance of accurate damper modeling, highlighting potential discrepancies between existing damper design formula and actual damper behavior. By revising the damper formula, the proposed method achieved accurate cable tension estimation, with a maximum estimation error of approximately 10%.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제12권3_4호
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• pp.465-482
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• 2013

Recently, a novel stress sensor, which utilizes the elasto-magnetic (EM) effect of ferromagnetic materials, has been developed to measure stress in steel cables and wires. In this study, the effectiveness of this EM based stress sensors for monitoring of the cable tension force of a real scale cable-stayed bridge was investigated. Two EM stress sensors were installed on two selected multi-strand cables in Hwa-Myung Bridge, Busan, South Korea. Conventional lift-off test was conducted to obtain reference cable tension forces of two test cables. The reference forces were used to calibrate and validate cable tension force measurements from the EM sensors. Tension force variations of two test cables during the second tensioning work on Hwa-Myung Bridge were monitored using the EM sensors. Numerical simulations were conducted to compare and verify the monitoring results. Based on the results, the effectiveness of EM sensors for accurate field monitoring of the cable tension force of cable-stayed bridge is discussed.

• 한국구조물진단유지관리공학회 논문집
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• 제18권3호
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• pp.93-100
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• 2014

본 연구는 교량의 상시계측자료인 고유진동수 및 고유모드를 기준으로 계측기반모델을 구성하고, 구조해석을 수행하여 교량 공용상태에서 사장케이블 장력평가를 수행하였다. 케이블 설치 위치에 따라 하중유형별 케이블 장력이 다르다는 것을 알 수 있다. 고정하중과 활하중에 의한 케이블 계측장력은 케이블 설치위치에 따라 차이가 크지 않으나 설계하중을 적용한 해석결과보다 큰 값을 나타낸다. 계측기반모델에 대한 케이블장력분포는, 설계모델에 대한 장력보다 크지만, 계측장력과 유사한 분포를 나타낸다. 그러므로 장기거동을 고려하여 사장교 케이블설계는 계측기반모델의 해석결과를 반영할 필요가 있다. 이를 위하여 많은 계측자료를 이용한 장기거동 분석연구가 요구된다.

• 한국군사과학기술학회지
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• 제8권1호
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• pp.32-38
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• 2005

In this study, Experimental analysis on submarine cable tension was performed for the safe and efficient laying and recovery of a submarine cable. The tension analysis was done through the analyzed data using the cable dynamic theory and the measured data using the experiment. The analyzed cable tension was able to decide requirements for the purpose of laying and recovery of the submarine cable. As the result of tension analysis for a Submarine cable, it was shown a proper feasibility to determine the laying and recovery conditions of the submarine cable.