Journal
COMPUTERS & STRUCTURES
Volume 79, Issue 29-30, Pages 2681-2692Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/S0045-7949(01)00120-1
Keywords
target configuration under dead loads; cable-supported structures; elastic catenary cable; Newton Raphson method; suspension bridged; cable-stayed bridge
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This paper presents a rigorous approach for analyzing the target configurations of cable-supported structures under dead loads by the Newton-Raphson method. A linearized equilibrium equation of a cable element, which includes the nodal coordinates and the unstrained element length as unknowns, is formulated using the analytical solution of an elastic catenary cable. An incremental equilibrium equation for a single cable is formed with the proposed equilibrium matrices of cable elements. The geometry of the target configuration of a cable-supported structure under dead loads is utilized to solve the incremental equilibrium equation. Detailed procedures to analyze the target configurations of suspension bridges and cable-stayed bridges are presented. The efficiency and the accuracy of the proposed method are demonstrated through numerical examples. (C) 2001 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.
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