dynamic analysis of suspension bridges and full scale testing悬索桥的动态分析和全面测试.pdfVIP

Open Journal of Civil Engineering, 2012, 2, 58-67 / 10.4236/ojce.2012.22010 Published Online June 2012 (http://www.SciRP.org/journal/ojce) Dynamic Analysis of Suspension Bridges and Full Scale Testing 1 2 3* Serap Altın , Kubilay Kaptan , Semih S. Tezcan 1Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey 2Istanbul Aydin University, Istanbul, Turkey 3Civil Engineering, Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey * Email: tezokan@ Received January 20, 2012; revised February 18, 2012; accepted March 4, 2012 ABSTRACT This paper is concerned with the earthquake analysis of suspension bridges, in which the effects of large deflections are taken into account. The first part of the study deals with an iteration scheme for the nonlinear static analysis of suspen- sion bridges by means of tangent stiffness matrices. The concept of tangent stiffness matrix is then introduced in the frequency equation governing the free vibration of the system. At any equilibrium stage, the vibrations are assumed to take place tangent to the curve representing the force-deflection characteristics of the structure. The bridge is idealized as a three dimensional lumped mass system and subjected to three orthogonal components of earthquake ground motion producing horizontal, vertical and torsional oscillations. By this means a realistic appraisal is achieved for torsional re- sponse as well as for the other types of vibration. The modal response spectrum technique is applied to evaluate the se