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Reliability-Based Managing Criteria for Cable Tension Force in Cable-stayed Bridges  

Cho, Hyo-Nam (한양대학교 토목환경공학과)
Kang, Kyung-Koo (한양대학교 토목환경공학과)
Cha, Cheol-Joon (한양대학교 토목환경공학과)
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Journal of the Korea institute for structural maintenance and inspection / v.9, no.3, 2005 , pp. 129-138 More about this Journal
Abstract
This paper presents a methodology for the determination of optimal managing criteria for cable tension force in cable-stayed bridges using acceleration data acquired by monitoring system. There are many long span bridges installed with monitoring system in Korea. The monitoring systems are installed to diagnose abnormal behavior or damages in bridges and to warn these to bridge management agency. In cable-stayed bridges, the cable tension force could be an important indicator of abnormal behavior because of the geometric configuration of the cable-stayed bridge. If the management value of cable tension force is set too high or too low, then the monitoring system could not warn properly for the abnormal behavior of a bridge. Generally, the management value is set by empirical or engineering judgment, but in this paper, a new methodology for the determination of managing criteria for cable tension force is proposed based on the probability distribution model for tension force and reliability analysis. The proposed methodology is applied to a real concrete cable-stayed bridge in order to investigate its applicability.
Keywords
Cable Tension Force; Management criteria; Monitoring System; Kolmogorov-Smirnov test;
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