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NONLINEAR FREE VIBRATIONS ANALYSIS OF A CABLE - SUPPORTED BRIDGE DUE TO CHANGE OF THE MAIN BEAM’S RIGIDITY J. HENDEL1, M. KICZKA2 1 PhD., Cz?stochowa University of Technology, ul. Akademicka 3, 42-200 Cz?stochowa, POLAND 2MK Dach System, Gliwice, POLAND ABSTRACT: Nonlinear free vibrations analysis of a cable-stayed bridge with radius system of stay-cables are presented in this article. Relationship between frequency of free vibrations and the main beam’s rigidity is analyzed. Computer program Robot Millenium, which bases on the finite element method (FEM), was used for numerical calculations. The difference between results of nonlinear construction model (geometrical nonlinearity) and linear model is shown.  1. INTRODUCTION Cable-supported bridges may be considered as the transition between the traditional constructed bridges (beam-, frame-, arch bridges) and the suspension bridges. Considering their advantages, among them: clear static model, possibility of changing stay-cable’s tension, large construction’s work reliability and a small height of a stiffening beam (bridge deck) there has been made a huge progress lately in that type of bridges. Steel bridge decks constructions advantage is observed, especially considering long-span bridges. Most popular systems of stay-cables are fan, harp and radius. Known disadvantage of cable-supported bridges is pretty high strain and sensitivity of stay-cables and stiffening beams for dynamic behavior. Effect of dynamic behavior (according to PN-82/B-2000) is taken into consideration by executing a dynamic calculations or by multiplication a characteristic values by dynamic coefficient. Therefore a dynamic analysis of construction, especially free vibration analysis, is important for the cable-supported bridges. 2. CABLE-STAYED BRIDGES DESCRIPTION There was taken a cable-stayed bridge shown on figure 1 to dynamic analysis as an example. Fig. 1. Static model of analyzed bridge. Construction’s data is following: Entire lengt