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Wind and Structures Volume 12, Number 5, August 2009 , pages 413-424 DOI: https://doi.org/10.12989/was.2009.12.5.413 |
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Effects of frequency ratio on bridge aerodynamics determined by free-decay sectional model tests |
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X.R. Qin, K.C.S. Kwok, C.H. Fok and P.A. Hitchcock
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| Abstract | ||
| A series of wind tunnel free-decay sectional model dynamic tests were conducted to examine the effects of torsional-to-vertical natural frequency ratio of 2DOF bridge dynamic systems on the aerodynamic and dynamic properties of bridge decks. The natural frequency ratios tested were around 2.2:1 and 1.2:1 respectively, with the fundamental vertical natural frequency of the system held constant for all the tests. Three 2.9 m long twin-deck bridge sectional models, with a zero, 16% (intermediate gap) and 35% (large gap) gap-to-width ratio, respectively, were tested to determine whether the effects of frequency ratio are dependent on bridge deck cross-section shapes. The results of wind tunnel tests suggest that for the model with a zero gap-width, a model to approximate a thin flat plate, the flutter derivatives, and consequently the aerodynamic forces, are relatively independent of the torsional-to-vertical frequency ratio for a relatively large range of reduced wind velocities, while for the models with an intermediate gap-width (around 16%) and a large gap-width (around 35%), some of the flutter derivatives, and therefore the aerodynamic forces, are evidently dependent on the frequency ratio for most of the tested reduced velocities. A comparison of the modal damping ratios also suggests that the torsional damping ratio is much more sensitive to the frequency ratio, especially for the two models with nonzero gap (16% and 35% gap-width). The test results clearly show that the effects of the frequency ratio on the flutter derivatives and the aerodynamic forces were dependent on the aerodynamic cross-section shape of the bridge deck. | ||
| Key Words | ||
| wind-induced vibration; flutter derivative; system identification; frequency ratio; wind tunnel test. | ||
| Address | ||
| X.R. Qin, K.C.S. Kwok, C.H. Fok and P.A. Hitchcock ; CLP Power Wind/Wave Tunnel Facility, HKUST, H.K. S.A.R. P.R. China | ||