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Time-Progressive Dynamic
Assessment of Abrupt
Cable-Breakage Events on CableStayed Bridges
Yufen Zhou and Suren Chen
Presenter: Khawaja Ali
Structural Engineering
Laboratory
Yokohama National University,
Japan
Abstract
Although long-span bridges are usually
designed with sufficient structural
redundancy, particular concerns arise about
the abrupt breakage of bridge cables, which
may cause progressive failure such as
zipper-like collapse (Starossek 2007)
The time-progressive nonlinear dynamic
analysis approach is proposed to investigate
the abrupt cable-breakage event of a cablestayed bridge.
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Introduction
Like other civil structures, long-span bridges experience
increasing risk of progressive failure subject to some
hazardous loading scenarios.
As the primary guideline for the design of bridge cables in
the United States, the Post-Tensioning Institute (PTI) issued
recommendations for stay cable design, testing, and
installation (PTI 2007).
The recommendations provide two load application methods
to quantify the dynamic effects due to the loss of cable:
one is the pseudodynamic method, in which the
equivalent static analysis is performed with a pair of
impact pseudodynamic forces, resulting from 2.0 times
the static forces, applied at the top and the bottom
anchorage locations of the ruptured cable
the other is nonlinear dynamic analysis, in which the
dynamic cable forces due to the cable breakage are
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applied.
Introduction
Compared with the pseudo-dynamic analysis focusing on the maximum
responses during the whole process of the abrupt loss of a cable,
nonlinear dynamic analysis can provide more detailed and accurate
information throughout the cable-breakage process.
As a relatively new area, nonlinear dynamic analysis of cable breakage
has been the subject of a few studies in recent years..
Cable-breakage events on cable-stayed bridges, either accidental or
intentional, can happen at any time when the bridge is vibrating from
the excitation of stochastic traffic.
The dynamic impact on the bridge from the cable-breakage event,
particularly the local performance of the connecting nodes of the
ruptured cable, is usually critical.
Rational traffic loads are thus important to provide more accurate
information about the performance at those critical locations on longspan bridges before, during, and after the cable-breakage event
This paper proposes the time-progressive nonlinear dynamic analysis
methodology based on SAP2000 15.0.0 to investigate the performance
of a cable-stayed bridge subjected to abrupt cable breakage in the time
domain.
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1. Main twin box girder, cross girder and A-shaped towers are
modeled using frame elements
2. Stay cables are modeled as cable elements
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2.7. Conclusion
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