Research on the Modal Damping Ratio for Stay Cable with Viscoselasticity Damper in Cable-Stayed Bridges

Abstract:

Taking the bending stiffness, cable static sag and cable inclined angle into consideration, equations of space free vibration of the cable-damper system are derived in this paper. Joining the variable separation strategy and center difference method, the partial differential equations are discretized in space and a set of complex eigenvalue equations, which are solved by state space method, are derived, and both the maximum modal damping ration and the optimal damper parameter are obtained. Several typical stay cables are investigated for both the in-plane and out-of-plane modes under different cable parameters and damper parameters. The results demonstrate that modal damping ratio for the first in-plane mode is significantly affected by the cable static sag only, but those for the other modes affected by cable sag are slight, and cable static sag do not affect the optimal damper parameter for all modes, however the bending stiffness will changes both the maximum modal damping ratios and the optimal damper parameters. Some valuable suggestions are proposed for the optimal damper design.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 779-780)
• Pages: 671-674
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.779-780.671
• Online since: September 2013
• Authors: Shui Sheng Chen, De Shan Wang
• Keywords: Difference Method, Modal Damping Ratio, Stay Cables, Viscoselasticity Damper

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