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Approximate calculation of the static analysis of a lifted stay cable in super-long span cable-stayed bridges

  • Zhao, Xinwei;Xiao, Rucheng;Sun, Bin
    • Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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    • v.74 no.5
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    • pp.635-655
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    • 2020
  • The sag effect of long stay cables is one of the key factors restricting further increase in the span of cable-stayed bridges. Based on the formerly proposed concept of long stay cables lifted by an auxiliary suspension cable in cross-strait cable-stayed bridges, corresponding static approximate calculations and analytical theory based on catenary and parabolic cable configurations are established. Taking a main span 1400 m cable-stayed bridge as the research object, three typical lifting conditions and the whole process of auxiliary cable lifting are analyzed and discussed. The results show that the sag effect is effectively reduced. The support efficiency is only improved when the cables are lifted above the original cable chord. Reduction of the horizontal component force of the cable is limited. The equivalent elastic modulus and the vertical support stiffness of the lifted cables are significantly increased with increased horizontal projection length and not sensitive to the change of the lifting point position. The scheme of lifting the cable to the chord midpoint is more economical because of the less steel required for the auxiliary suspension cable, but its effect on improving the vertical support efficiency is limited. The support efficiency is better when the cable is lifted to the cable end tangential to the original cable chord, but the lifting force and the cross-sectional area of the auxiliary suspension cable are doubled. The approximate calculation results of the lifted cables are very close to the numerical analysis results, which verifies the applicability of the approximation method proposed in this study. The results of parabolic approximation calculations are approximately equal to that of catenary cable geometry. As the parabolic approximation analysis theory of lifted cables is more convenient in mathematical processing, it is feasible to use parabolic approximation analysis theory as the analytical method for the conceptual design of lifted cables of super-long span cable-stayed bridges.

Structural control of cable-stayed bridges under traveling earthquake wave excitation

  • Raheem, Shehata E Abdel
    • Coupled systems mechanics
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    • v.7 no.3
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    • pp.269-280
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    • 2018
  • Post-earthquake damages investigation in past and recent earthquakes has illustrated that the ground motion spatial variation plays an important role in the structural response of long span bridges. For the structural control of seismic-induced vibrations of cable-stayed bridges, it is extremely important to include the effects of the ground motion spatial variation in the analysis for design of an effective control system. The feasibility and efficiency of different vibration control strategies for the cable-stayed bridge under multiple support excitations have been examined to enhance a structure's ability to withstand earthquake excitations. Comparison of the response due to non-uniform input ground motion with that due to uniform input demonstrates the importance of accounting for spatial variability of excitations. The performance of the optimized designed control systems for uniform input excitations gets worse dramatically over almost all of the evaluation criteria under multiple-support excitations.

Development of Cable Management System for Ship (선박 전선 관리 시스템 개발)

  • Lee, Jae-Hyun
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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    • v.12 no.11
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    • pp.1987-1992
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    • 2008
  • In recent years, the shape of ship building have been advanced. Thus the system is complex and cable is much used in ship. In this paper, Dijkstra algorithm is used to solve the shortest path of cable laying. Cable laying is given much weight in fable management system of ship. The developed cable management system is cut down on expenses and is improve the operation efficiency for ship building. Therefore, the developed cable management system can be used a support system in order to achieve a management target of company.

Design to Control Vibration for Stay Cable with Damper (댐퍼도입에 의한 사장 케이블의 제진설계)

  • Kim, Hyeon Kyeom;Hwang, Jae Woong;Lee, Myeong Jae;Seo, Ju Won
    • KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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    • v.28 no.1A
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    • pp.51-58
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    • 2008
  • A cable element happens to vibration easily rather than other elements because a cable element has few rotational stiffness. Dynamic motion of stay cable is distinguished from vibration by wind and/or rain and excitation by support movement. Mostly a stay cable is vibrated by wind and/or rain except that when natural periods coincide between stiffening girder and stay cable. It happens to deterioration of serviceability and durability by vortex shedding, rainy-wind induced vibration, and galloping. Additional damping generated by installation of cable damper is well known good scheme against above phenomena. Researchers have lack of effort to develop the recommendations even if cable stayed bridges are designed and constructed in Korea. Therefore, development of the domestic recommendations should be achieved as soon as possible. This study suggests the consistent and systematic recommendations on vibration controlling design of stay cable by installation of damper. It gives readers two important methodologies that one evaluates required damping ratio, the other determines installing point considering efficiency.

A CASE STUDY OF CONSTRUCTION ENGINEERING FOR CABLE SUPPORTED BRIDGE BY COLLABORATIVE SYSTEM

  • Jung-Min Nam;Sung-Ho Kim;Jae-Hong Kim
    • International conference on construction engineering and project management
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    • 2011.02a
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    • pp.586-590
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    • 2011
  • This paper presents the case study of the CE by collaborative system and proposes a model of the CM group for the cable supported bridge. The cable supported bridges have a large project scale and need a high level of construction method. Therefore an advanced construction management system is required for successful completion of project. The construction management (CM) group which control design management, construction plan, subcontract, technical support and R&D is organized for the cable supported bridge project. The CM group established a collaborative system with construction site and drew an effective management of cost, process, quality, safety for each project. Furthermore, the CM group established the procedure of construction management based on the construction engineering (CE) items and performed the project management on the construction phase. Efficiency of cost reduction and site control is maximized by using a collaborative system.

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Development of Parametric Design Tool for Offshore Plant Cable Tray Using PML (프로그램 매크로언어를 이용한 해양 플랜트 케이블 트레이의 파라메트릭 설계 도구 개발)

  • Kim, Hyun-Cheol
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.20 no.2
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    • pp.632-637
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    • 2019
  • The cable tray design of an offshore plant production design is to optimally arrange the 3D modeling so that the cable can be installed without interfering with the structural members and various outfit equipment, and it is performed using a PDMS (Plant design management system), which is a 3D CAD system for an offshore plant layout. This study reviewed the development of PML (Programmable macro language) for a PDMS supporting offshore plant cable tray design and examined the efficiency compared to the existing method. Cable tray design PML developed in this paper enables fully parametric design using electrical outfit template library, allowing a rapid response to frequent modifications due to design changes and minimizing repetitive work fatigue by reflecting the accumulated design experience. In addition, the developed system was applied to the offshore plant structure module and it improved the work efficiency by more than 50% compared to the existing method.

Development of a Diagnostic Module Based Maintenance Support Device for Fiber Optic Telecommunication Cable in Overhead Region (고소지역 작업현장에서 공중선 상태 진단 모듈 기반 정비 지원 장치 개발)

  • Kim, Hee-Chul
    • The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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    • v.9 no.4
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    • pp.469-474
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    • 2014
  • Installed on telephone poles laid scrambling to monitor the status of the communication lines, and cost information can provid eadditional information tools to develop systems to support on-site monitoring. Aerial support for a maintenance monitoring module to apply an embedded system, and information processing applications manufactured. In this study, a comprehensive plan in accordance with the government's aerial maintenance work to prevent accidents spread support for the device to immediately take advantage of big cities and aerial maintenance business, Construction worker accused of bias and aims to improve efficiency of maintenance puts.

A novel method for vehicle load detection in cable-stayed bridge using graph neural network

  • Van-Thanh Pham;Hye-Sook Son;Cheol-Ho Kim;Yun Jang;Seung-Eock Kim
    • Steel and Composite Structures
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    • v.46 no.6
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    • pp.731-744
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    • 2023
  • Vehicle load information is an important role in operating and ensuring the structural health of cable-stayed bridges. In this regard, an efficient and economic method is proposed for vehicle load detection based on the observed cable tension and vehicle position using a graph neural network (GNN). Datasets are first generated using the practical advanced analysis program (PAAP), a robust program for modeling and considering both geometric and material nonlinearities of bridge structures subjected to vehicle load with low computational costs. With the superiority of GNN, the proposed model is demonstrated to precisely capture complex nonlinear correlations between the input features and vehicle load in the output. Four popular machine learning methods including artificial neural network (ANN), decision tree (DT), random forest (RF), and support vector machines (SVM) are refereed in a comparison. A case study of a cable-stayed bridge with the typical truck is considered to evaluate the model's performance. The results demonstrate that the GNN-based model provides high accuracy and efficiency in prediction with satisfactory correlation coefficients, efficient determination values, and very small errors; and is a novel approach for vehicle load detection with the input data of the existing monitoring system.

Development and Working Efficiency of Supporting Program for the Parametric Electrical Outfit Production Design of Offshore Plant Based on PML (PML 기반 파라메트릭 해양플랜트 전장생산설계 지원 프로그램 개발 및 업무 효율성 연구)

  • Kim, Hyun-Cheol;Kim, Jong-Myung
    • Journal of Ocean Engineering and Technology
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    • v.33 no.3
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    • pp.205-213
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    • 2019
  • Recently, because of the global recession of the offshore plant industry and low-cost orders, there has been increasing interest in strengthening the competitiveness of domestic companies for the design and production technologies of offshore plants. However, in the offshore plant design field, the Plant Design Management System (PDMS), which is a 3D CAD program for plant layout developed by AVEVA Marine, is already commonly used as offshore plant design software and widely used in large domestic shipyards and cooperative design companies. Under this background, we have been thinking about ways to design better with the existing software. In this study, we developed a parametric design program to maximize the efficiency and reduce the working time for offshore plant electrical outfit production design based on the Programmable Macro Language (PML) of PDMS. We also examined its performance. By applying the developed program to the offshore plant module selected as an application example, it was confirmed that a 50% improvement in the work efficiency of cable tray design could be obtained compared with the existing method, with work efficiency improvements of 80% or more in other field design work.

Dynamic performance of girder bridges with explosion-proof and aseismic system

  • Wang, Jingyu;Yuan, Wancheng;Wu, Xun;Wei, Kai
    • Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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    • v.61 no.3
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    • pp.419-426
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    • 2017
  • Recently, the transportation of dangerous explosive goods is increasing, which makes vehicle blasting accidents a potential threat for the safety of bridge structures. In addition, blasting accidents happen more easily when earthquake occurs. Excessive dynamic response of bridges under extreme loads may cause local member damage, serviceability issues, or even failure of the whole structure. In this paper, a new explosion-proof and aseismic system is proposed including cable support damping bearing and steel-fiber reinforced concrete based on the existing researches. Then, considering one 40m-span simply supported concrete T-bridge as the prototype, through scale model test and numerical simulation, the dynamic response of the bridge under three conditions including only earthquake, only blast load and the combination of the two extreme loads is obtained and the applicability of this explosion-proof and aseismic system is explored. Results of the study show that this explosion-proof and aseismic system has good adaptability to seism and blast load at different level. The reducing vibration isolation efficiency of cable support damping bearing is pretty high. Increasing cables does not affect the good shock-absorption performance of the original bearing. The new system is good at shock absorption and displacement limitation. It works well in reducing the vertical dynamic response of beam body, and could limit the relative displacement between main girder and capping beam in different orientation so as to solve the problem of beam falling. The study also shows that the enhancement of steel fibers in concrete could significantly improve the blast resistance of main beam. Results of this paper can be used in the process of antiknock design, and provide strong theoretical basis for comprehensive protection and support of girder bridges.