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Computational Study on Aerodynamic Mitigation of Wind-Induced, Large-Amplitude Vibrations of Stay Cables With Strakes

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Author(s)

Dong Hun Yeo, Nicholas P. Jones

Abstract

Modifications of circular cylinder surfaces, such as strakes and helical wires, effectively mitigate Kármán vortex-induced vibrations normal to flow and have been applied to the reduction of large-amplitude vibrations of stay cables in bridges, which occur under wind oblique to a cable with or without rainfall. This aerodynamic control method cannot be fully effective without un-derstanding the behavior of the flow around and the associated forces on oblique cables. To ad-dress this issue, flow around a yawed cylinder with various strake patterns was studied using three-dimensional detached eddy simulation (DES) at Reynolds number of 1.4×105. Results demonstrated that strake patterns strongly influence the development of flow structures around a yawed cylinder and therefore the associated forces on the cylinder. The results suggest that par-ticular strake patterns can mitigate large-amplitude and low-frequency vibrations of stay cables induced by oblique wind.
Citation
Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics

Keywords

cable vibration, cable-stayed bridge, yawed circular cylinder, detached eddy simulation (DES), strake effect, aerodynamic control.

Citation

, D. and Jones, N. (2011), Computational Study on Aerodynamic Mitigation of Wind-Induced, Large-Amplitude Vibrations of Stay Cables With Strakes, Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics, [online], https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=906868 (Accessed March 28, 2024)
Created March 1, 2011, Updated February 19, 2017