Numerical investigation of the nonlinear interaction between the sinusoidal motion-induced and gust-induced forces acting on bridge decks
Samuel Tesfaye,
Igor Kavrakov,
Guido Morgenthal
Abstract:With the increasing spans and complex deck shapes, aerodynamic nonlinearity becomes a crucial concern in the design of long-span bridges. This paper investigates the nonlinear interaction between the gust-induced and motion-induced forces acting on bridge decks using the Vortex Particle Method (VPM) as a Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) method. This nonlinear interaction is complex and intractable by the conventional linear semi-analytical models that employ the superposition principle. To excite such intera… Show more
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