Suspension Bridge Flutter for Girder with Separate Control Flaps

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Active vibration control of long span suspension bridge flutter using separated control flaps (SFSC) has shown to increase effectively the critical wind speed of bridges. In this paper, an SFSC calculation based on modal equations of the vertical and torsional motions of the bridge girder including the flaps is presented. The length of the flaps attached to the girder, the flap configuration and the flap rotational angles are parameters used to increase the critical wind speed of the bridge. To illustrate the theory a numerical example is shown for a suspension bridge of 1000m+2500m+1000m span based on the Great Belt Bridge streamlined girder.
Original languageEnglish
Publication date2000
Place of publicationAalborg
PublisherDept. of Building Technology and Structural Engineering
Number of pages9
StatePublished

Publication series

NameStructural Reliability Theory
PublisherDept. of Building Technology and Structural Engineering
Number192
VolumeR0013
ISSN (print)1395-7953

Bibliographical note

Accepted for publication in Journal of Bridge Engineering, ASCE, May, 2000

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Keywords

  • Motion-Induced Forces, Modal Analysis, Suspension Bridge, Flutter, CAE, Maple V, SFSC, Bridge Girder

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