Number of Cable Effects on Buckling Analysis of Cable-Stayed Bridges
Publication: Journal of Bridge Engineering
Volume 4, Issue 4
Abstract
Cables instead of interval piers support cable-stayed bridges, and the bridge deck is subjected to strong axial forces due to the horizontal components of cable reactions. The structural behavior of a bridge deck becomes nonlinear because of the axial forces, large deflection, and nonlinear behavior of the cables and the large deformation of the pylons as well as their interactions. The locations and amplitude of axial forces acting on the bridge deck may depend on the number of cables. Agrawal indicated that the maximum cable tension decreases rapidly with the increase in the number of cables. This paper investigates the stability analysis of cable-stayed bridges and considers cable-stayed bridges with geometry similar to those proposed in Agrawal's paper. A digital computer and numerical analysis are used to examine 2D finite element models of these bridges. The eigen buckling analysis has been applied to find the minimum critical loads of the cable-stayed bridges. The numerical results indicate that the total cumulative axial forces acting on the bridge girder increase as the number of cables increases, yet because the bridge deck is subjected to strong axial forces, the critical load of the bridges decreases. Increasing the number of cables may not increase the critical load on buckling analysis of this type of bridge. The fundamental critical loads increase if the ratio of Ip/Ib increases until the ratio reaches the optimum ratio. If the ratio of Ip/Ib is greater than the optimum ratio, depending on the geometry of an individual bridge, the fundamental critical load decreases for all the types of bridges considered in this paper. In order to make the results useful, they have been normalized and represented in graphical form.
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Received: Nov 24, 1997
Published online: Nov 1, 1999
Published in print: Nov 1999
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