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Monitored structural behavior of a long span cable-stayed bridge under environmental effects

Alemdar Bayraktar, Ashraf Ashour, Halil Karadeniz, Altok Kurşun, Arif Erdiş


DOI: https://doi.org/10.20528/cjsmec.2018.04.002
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Abstract


An accurate numerical analysis of the behavior of long-span cable-stayed bridges under environmental effects is a challenge because of complex, uncertain and varying environmental meteorology. This study aims to investigate in-situ experimental structural behavior of long-span steel cable-stayed bridges under environmental effects such as air temperature and wind using the monitoring data. Nissibi cable-stayed bridge with total length of 610m constructed in the city of Adıyaman, Turkey, in 2015 is chosen for this purpose. Structural behaviors of the main structural elements including deck, towers (pylons) and cables of the selected long span cable-stayed bridge under environmental effects such as air temperature and wind are investigated by using daily monitoring data. The daily variations of cable forces, cable accelerations, pylon accelerations and deck accelerations with air temperature and wind speed are compared using the hottest summer (July 31, 2015) and the coldest winter (January 1, 2016) days data.


Keywords


long span cable-stayed bridges; environmental effects; temperature effects; wind effects; monitoring of bridges

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