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http://dx.doi.org/10.12989/was.2014.18.1.083

Aerodynamic stability of stay cables incorporated with lamps: a case study  

Li, S.Y. (Wind Engineering Research Center, College of Civil Engineering, Hunan University)
Chen, Z.Q. (Wind Engineering Research Center, College of Civil Engineering, Hunan University)
Dong, G.C. (Wind Engineering Research Center, College of Civil Engineering, Hunan University)
Luo, J.H. (Wind Engineering Research Center, College of Civil Engineering, Hunan University)
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Wind and Structures / v.18, no.1, 2014 , pp. 83-101 More about this Journal
Abstract
Lamps installed on stay cables of cable-stayed bridges may alter the configuration of circular cross section of the cables and therefore result in aerodynamically unstable cable vibrations. The background of this study is a preliminary design of lamp installation on the cable-stayed He-dong Bridge in Guangzhou, China. Force measurements and dynamic response measurements wind tunnel tests were carried out to validate the possibility of cable galloping vibrations. It is observed that galloping will occur and the critical wind velocity is far less than the design wind velocity at Guangzhou City stipulated in Chinese Code. Numerical simulations utilizing software ANSYS CFX were subsequently performed and almost the same results as the wind tunnel tests were obtained. Moreover, the pressure and velocity contours around cable-lamp model obtained from numerical simulations indicated that the upstream steel wire in the preliminary design is the key factor for the onset of the galloping vibrations. A modification for the preliminary design of lamp installation, which suggests to remove the two parallel steel wires, is proposed, and it effectiveness is validated in further wind tunnel tests.
Keywords
stay cable; galloping; wind tunnel tests; lamp installation; aerodynamic force coefficients; numerical simulation;
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