Impact of Damper Stiffness and Damper Support Stiffness on the Efficiency of a Linear Viscous Damper in Controlling Stay Cable Vibrations
Publication: Journal of Bridge Engineering
Volume 19, Issue 4
Abstract
Accurate prediction of optimum damper size and its corresponding maximum attainable modal damping ratio is essential for the design of a linear viscous damper to control cable vibrations on cable-stayed bridges. The stiffness within the damper and the damper support would affect both the required damper size and the resulting equivalent modal damping ratio of the damped cable and thus influence the damper efficiency. An experimental study on a cable-damper system is conducted to investigate the individual and the combined effects of damper stiffness and damper support stiffness on the performance of a linear viscous damper. A finite-element model of the corresponding cable-damper system is developed to verify the experimental results and further study these two parameters within the typical ranges of cable and damper properties used on real bridges. Results show that higher damper stiffness and/or lower damper support stiffness would have an adverse impact on damper performance. Increasing the stiffness of a damper and/or its support would result in a larger optimum damper size. However, the maximum attainable damping ratio would decrease with larger damper stiffness but increase if the support is more rigid. To facilitate practical design, a set of asymptotic relationships has been proposed, of which the optimum damper size and the maximum achievable damping ratio are expressed concisely as functions of nondimensional damper properties in terms of its location, stiffness, and support stiffness. Design examples are given to illustrate the various applications of the proposed refined damper design tool.
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The authors are grateful to the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) for supporting this project.
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Journal of Bridge Engineering
Volume 19 • Issue 4 • April 2014
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Received: Jun 6, 2013
Accepted: Sep 30, 2013
Published online: Oct 2, 2013
Published in print: Apr 1, 2014
Discussion open until: May 19, 2014
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