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Determination of Initial Tension and Reference Length of Cables of Cable-Stayed Bridges  

Yhim, Sung-Soon (서울시립대학교 토목공학과)
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Journal of the Korea institute for structural maintenance and inspection / v.9, no.2, 2005 , pp. 137-146 More about this Journal
Abstract
This study presents the shape iteration method and the updated Lagrangian methods to calculate the initial tension and the reference length of cables of cable-stayed bridges. The girders and towers of cable-stayed bridge are modelled as 3-dimensional frame elements and the cable as nonlinear truss element or Ernst's cable element. Compared with the initial tensions of cables by finite element method in this study and by trial-and error method in practices, the tensions by the former are shown to be a little less than the those by the latter. The reference lengths of cables by Ernst's cable elements are almost consistent with those of cables by nonlinear truss elements. And the reference length of cables in this study are almost consistent with the arc length of beam with the same initial tension. Therefore the reference lengths of cables in cable-stayed bridges are shown to be obtained simply by the theory of beam with the initial tension calculated in this study.
Keywords
Cable-Stayed Bridges; Initial Tension; Reference Length; Nonlinear Truss Element; Ernst's Cable Element; Updated Lagrangian method; Shape Iteration Method;
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