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In order to study the stability effects of the curved cable-stayed bridges, a three-dimensional finite element model is used in which the eigen-buckling analysis is applied to find the m

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vertical dynamic response of the undamped main span cable at the cable midspan when a vertical harmonic excitation is exerted at the same position The harmonic excitation is F(t) = F0-cos2nfi with

F0 = 1000 kN and f = 0.05 Hz Both the responses with and without consideration of bending stiffness are given The difference of response amplitudes between the two sequences is not significant, while the transient responses at a same instant may be distinct from each other due to the phase shift

CONCLUDING REMARKS

This paper reports on the development of a finite element formulation for free and forced vibration analysis of structural cables taking into account both sag extensibility and bending stiffness The predicted results by the proposed formulation agree favorably with the analytical results available in the literature and with the measurement results of real bridge cables The numerical simulations show that the cable bending stiffness contributes a considerable effect on the natural frequencies when the tension force is relatively small, and affects higher modes more significantly than lower modes The proposed method will be used to provide the training data required for developing a multi-layer neural network for identifying the cable tension from measured multi-mode frequencies By interchanging the input and output roles in the training of the network, a functional mapping for the inverse relation can

be directly established using the neural network which then serves as a tension force identifier

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

This study was supported by The Hong Kong Polytechnic University under grants G-YW29 and G- V785 These supports are gratefully acknowledged

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STABILITY ANALYSIS OF CURVED CABLE-STAYED BRIDGES

Yang-Cheng Wang I , Hung-Shan Shu ! and John Ermopoulos 2

l Department of Civil Engineering, Chinese Military Academy, Taiwan, ROC

P.O Box 90602-6, Feng-Shan, 83000, Taiwan, ROC

2 Department of Civil Engineering, National Technical University of Athens

42 Patission Street, 10682 Athens, Greece

ABSTRACT

The objective of this study is to investigate the stability behaviour of curved cable-stayed bridges

In recent days, cable-stayed bridges become more popular due to their pleasant aesthetic and their long span length When the span length increases, cable-stayed bridges become more flexible than the conventional continuous bridges and therefore, their stability analysis is essential In this study,

a curved cable-stayed bridge with a variety of geometric parameters including the radius of the curved bridge deck is investigated In order to study the stability effects of the curved cable-stayed bridges, a three-dimensional finite element model is used in which the eigen-buckling analysis is applied to find the minimum critical loads The numerical results first indicate that as the radius of the bridge deck increases the fundamental critical load decreases Furthermore, as the radius of the curved bridge deck becomes greater than 500m, the fundamental critical loads are not significantly decreased and they are approaching to those of the bridge with straight bridge deck The comparison of the results between the curved bridges with various radiuses and that of a straight bridge deck determines the curvature effects on stability analysis In order to make the results useful, they are non-dimensionalized and presented in graphical form, for various values of the parameters that are interested in the problem

KEYWORDS

Stability Analysis, Curved, Cable-Stayed Bridges, Bridges, Buckling

INTRODUCTION

Cable-stayed bridges have been known since the beginning of the 18th Century (Leonhardt, 1982 and Chang et al., 1981), but they have been widely used only in the last 50 years (O'Connor 1971, Troitsky 1988) The span length of cable-stayed bridges increases (Ito 1998 and Wang 1999a) due

to the use of computer technology and the high strength material; some of them have curved decks due to the pleasant aesthetic and the functional reasons (Menn 1998, and Ito 1998) These structures

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utilize their material well since all of their components are mainly axially loaded (Wang 1999b) The geometric nonlinearity induced by the pylon, the deck and the cables' arrangement influences the analysis results (Ermopoulos et al 1992, Troitsky 1988, and Xanthakos 1994), especially for the curved cable-stayed bridges Generally, this influence is small, but if the pylons and the deck are flexible, and cables' slope is small, then this influence becomes significant and stability analysis may be necessary

In this paper an elastic stability analysis of a cable-stayed bridge with two pylons and curved deck

is performed The considered loads include a uniform load along the entire span and a concentrated moving load A nonlinear finite element program and the Jocobi eigen-solver technique are used to determine the critical loads and their corresponding buckling mode shapes The results are presented in graphical form for a wide range of the parameters of the problem

GEOMETRY AND LOADING

The geometry, the notation, and the loading of the curved cable-stayed bridges structural model are presented in Figure 1 The bridge is symmetric and is composed of three major elements: (a) the bridge deck with various radiuses ranging from 250m to infinity, i.e., straight roadway, (b) the two pylons and (c) the cables Two cases of the bridge span lengths are considered In Case I (Figure 1) the projective length of the bridge remains constant no matter what is the radius, and in Case II (Figure 2) the total curved bridge length remains 460m; the bridge deck has a constant cross-section along the whole span It is supported at the ends of the both side spans by rollers while at the intersection points with the pylons is attached with a pinned connection The pylons are fixed at their bases; they have a constant cross-section and their intersection with the deck lies on the one third of their total height from the supports The projective distance between the two pylons is Ll=220m; the projective distance of the side spans is L 2 =120m each, for both cases The height H

of the pylon above the deck varies between 0.165 x L and 0.542x L These limiting values correspond to the top cable's slope of 20 ~ and 50 ~ , respectively The ratio Ip/I b (where Iv is the moment of inertia of the pylon and I b is the moment of inertia of the bridge deck) varies between 0.25 and 4 In order to take the cables' arrangement into account in buckling analysis, the distance d

is introduced as shown in Figure 1 The ratio d/H varies between 0.2 (harp-system) and 0.95 (fan- system) The cables are of constant cross-section, they support the deck every 20m and are attached

to the pylons by hinges

Figure 1 (a) Side view and (b) Plan View of the Curved Cable-Stayed Bridge

Case I: with variable total curved length

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Figure (2) Plane View of the Curved Cable-Stayed Bridge Case II" with constant total curved length

Element Deck

Pylon

Cable

TABLE 1 ELEMENT'S PROPERTIES Area (m 2 )

0.300 0.100

Moment of Inertia (m 4 ) 0.200 0.050

0.500 0.005

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Table 1 shows the area and the moment of inertia used in different elements The Young's modulus (E) is taken to be 21 x 10 6 t/m 2 for the deck and the pylons, and 17 x 10 6 t/m 2 for the cables The applied loading is consisted of a uniformly distributed load (q) along the deck, and a moving concentrated load (P) at a distance (e) from the left deck's support Two values of the q/P ratio are considered, i.e 0 and 0.07(m -! ) During the critical load search this ratio remains constant for a given set of geometric parameters The total number of finite elements used in the whole structure was 96

FINITE ELEMENT MODEL AND IDEALIZATION

Numerical methods such as finite difference and finite element methods are powerful tools in recent days (Bathes 1982) In this study finite element method is used

Finite Element Model

Two different types of three-dimensional element such as beam and spar have modeled the curved cable-stayed bridge Forty-six beam elements model the bridge deck; fifteen beam elements model each pylon; and twenty spar elements which can only resist tension forces, model the stayed cables Each beam element consists of six degrees of freedom, i.e translation in x-, y- and z-direction and rotation about x-, y- and z-axis Each spar element consists of three degrees of freedom, i.e translation in the three directions

Boundary condition is one of the most important factors in buckling analysis The bases of pylons are considered as fixed; the end of side span is simply supported; and the connection between the pylon and the bridge deck is coupled in both vertical and lateral directions

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Idealization

An exact formulation and finite element analysis were made within the limitations of the following assumptions:

1 Members are initially straight and piecewise prismatic

2.The material behavior is linearly elastic and the moduli of elasticity E in tension and compression are equal

3.Statically concentrated and uniformly distributed loads only apply on the structure The loading is proportional to each other thus the load state increases in a manner such that the ratios of the forces to one another remain constant

4.No local buckling is considered

5.The effect of residual stress is assumed negligibly small

NUMERICAL RESULTS AND DISCUSSION

Based on the finite element model and the eigen-buckling analysis procedure (Ermopoulos et al

1992, Vlahinos et al 1993), the critical loads for various sets of geometric parameters are calculated The fundamental critical load and its corresponding mode shape are found In all cases the anti- symmetric modes' critical load was the lowest while the second mode is always symmetric Figure

3 shows the undeformed and the first three buckling mode shapes for a set of geometric parameters (for radius R=300m, Ip / I b = 4, H/L=0.262, d/H=0.6 and the deck's dead load only)

Figure 3 Buckling Mode Shapes of the Curved Cable-Stayed Bridges

Figure 4 shows several curves of critical loads Pcr versus the distance e from the left deck support (load eccentricity), for H/L=0.262, d/H=0.20 (harp-type) and d/H=0.95 (fan-type) represented in (a) and (b), respectively with the uniform load q=0 The solid lines correspond to Ip /I b = 4 and the dashed lines correspond to I p /I b = 1

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Figure 4 Minimum Critical Loads versus Eccentricity of the Concentrated Load for Various

Radiuses Figure 5 represents the fundamental critical load for the same bridge but subjected only to its dead load It becomes obviously that the fundamental critical loads are almost the same when the radius

is greater than 500 m for the harp-type bridge (d/H=0.2) represented in (a) For fan-type bridge (d/H=0.95) represented in Figure (b), if the radius decreases, the fundamental critical loads decrease

Figure 6 represents several curves of fundamental critical loads It is for dead and the moving concentrated load with ratio q/P=0.07 applied at the midpoint of the middle span versus the Ip /I b ratio Two cases are shown in Figure 6; the bridge with H/L = 0.262 is represented in (a), and with H/L=0.165 is represented in (b) for various values of radius It can be seem that the minimum critical load of the straight-deck bridges decreases when the ratio of Ip /I b increases, which means that the flexural interaction between the pylons and the bridge deck decrease If the radius of the curved bridge deck is less than 300m, the minimum critical load increases when the ratio of Ip /I b increases, which is different from those bridges having large radius

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Figure 5 Minimum Critical Loads versus Eccentricity of Concentrated and dead Loads for Radiuses

Figure 6 Fundamental Critical Loads versus Ratio Ip /I b for Various Radiuses

Figure 7 shows the radius effects on minimum critical load for various ratios of d/H and Ip /I b Coupling parameters of d/H and radius of curved-deck, the minimum critical loads of curved-deck bridges are significantly different from those of straight-deck bridges

Figure 7(a) shows that a curved-deck bridge with H/L=0.262 having the ratios of d/H=0.4 and Ip/Ib=4.0 has the optimum critical load when the radius is less than 500 m If the radius is greater than 500 m, the bridge with d/H=0.2 gives the optimum critical load For H/L=0.165 (Figure 7b), there are different sets of geometric parameters and different radius for this optimum

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Figure 7 Fundamental Critical Loads versus the Ratio of d/H for Radiuses

Regarding Case II (as represented in Figure 2), the stability behavior of both cases is similar but the minimum critical loads are greater than those of Case I Figure 8 shows four curves to compare the minimum critical loads for the optimum design parameters represented in Figure 7(a)

Figure 8 Comparison of the Fundamental Critical Load of Case I and II

CONCCLUDING REMARKS

In a common sense if a bridge's span length increases, the bridge becomes more flexible and then the critical load decreases but this study shows that this kind of sense is not suitable to apply to the curved cable-stayed bridges Due to the axial components of cable reactions (Wang 1999), the curved bridge deck has less axial forces acting on the bridge deck than the straight bridge deck has For the geometric parameters considered, the minimum critical load significantly increases when the radius of the curved-deck bridges less than 300 m On the other hand, if the radius is greater

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than 500 m, he characteristics of the minimum critical loads are similar to those of straight-deck bridge even though the curved-deck bridges have higher minimum critical loads

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EXPERT SYSTEM OF FLEXIBLE PARAMETRIC STUDY ON CABLE-STAYED

BRIDGES WITH MACHINE LEARNING

Bi Zhou ~ and Masaaki Hoshino 2

1, 2 Dept of Transportation Engineering College of Science and Technology, Nihon University (24-1, Narashinodai 7, Funabashi, Chiba 274-8501, Japan)

ABSTRACT

The development of practical expert systems is mostly concentrated on how to acquire experiential knowledge from domain experts successfully However, frequently, the acquiring progress is difficult and the representation is incomplete Furthermore, the experiential knowledge may be entirely lacking when the design situation changes or technology comes new The present study is to develop a cable- stayed bridge expert system of how knowledge in the cable-stayed bridges may be generated from hypothetical designs with machine learning for the parametric study processed as flexible as possible

KEYWORDS

cable-stayed bridge, structural design, multiple regression analysis, expert system, machine learning, object-oriented method

INTRODUCTION

Modern structures such as cable-stayed bridges involve a relatively new knowledge that may be entirely lacking when the design situation changes or technology comes new Formalised knowledge and knowledge evolving procedures are difficult to acquire, store and represent In view of expert systems, the knowledge obtained from experts or documentary materials (such as guidelines, books or papers) usually only contains general explanations about possible configurations with few recommendations which play a conceptual control or value-restricted role in selecting candidate designs

By introducing the concepts of static knowledge and dynamic knowledge, this paper presents an exploration for the expert systems of how to generate the domain knowledge from hypothetical designs with the change of the design situation and apply it to the knowledge evolution with the ability of learning The candidate related knowledge (CRK), that is regarded as having influence on the design situation, is used to supplement the relative knowledge constantly and is concentrated on hypothetical

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