Lateral Earthquake Response of Suspension Bridges
Publication: Journal of Structural Engineering
Volume 109, Issue 3
Abstract
The lateral response of suspension bridges to multiple‐support seismic excitations is investigated. A frequency‐domain random‐vibration approach is utilized to take into account not only the differences in ground motion inputs, but also the correlation among the various input motions. The earthquake response of the Golden Gate Suspension Bridge, in San Francisco, California, is analyzed. The ground motion inputs were taken from an array of time histories recovered from the Imperial Valley, California, earthquake of October 15, 1979. Mean square displacements of both the cables and the suspended structures, as well as stresses in the later, are calculated. It was found that a relative large number of modes is necessary to obtain a reasonable representation of the response and that uniform ground motion over the entire span is not a good assumption for these long structures since it does not represent the worst possible conditions.
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Journal of Structural Engineering
Volume 109 • Issue 3 • March 1983
Pages: 664 - 675
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Copyright © 1983 ASCE.
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Published online: Mar 1, 1983
Published in print: Mar 1983
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