Aerodynamic Coupling Effects on Flutter and Buffeting of Bridges
- 1 January 2000
- journal article
- Published by American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) in Journal of Engineering Mechanics
- Vol. 126 (1), 17-26
- https://doi.org/10.1061/(asce)0733-9399(2000)126:1(17)
Abstract
The effects of aerodynamic coupling among modes of vibration on the flutter and buffeting response of long-span bridges are investigated. By introducing the unsteady, self-excited aerodynamic forces in terms of rational function approximations, the equations of motion in generalized modal coordinates are transformed into a frequency-independent state-space format. The frequencies, damping ratios, and complex mode shapes at a prescribed wind velocity, and the critical flutter conditions, are identified by solving a complex eigenvalue problem. A significant feature of this approach is that an iterative solution for determining the flutter conditions is not necessary, because the equations of motion are independent of frequency. The energy increase in each flutter motion cycle is examined using the work done by the generalized aerodynamic forces or by the self-excited forces along the bridge axis. Accordingly, their contribution to the aerodynamic damping can be clearly identified. The multimode flutter gene...This publication has 12 references indexed in Scilit:
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