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Abstract. Active control of oscillations of a suspended cable under transversal wind, described by a constant term and a fluctuating turbulent component, is dealt with. Control of transversal in-plane and out-of-plane oscillations is performed by imposing a longitudinal motion to one support; the control law depends, linearly or quadratically, on measures of displacement and velocity of a selected point. First, the steady-state oscillations around the planar static configuration, determined by the wind constant component, under sinusoidal in-plane and out-of-plane loading are studied, showing the nonlinear behaviour in the regions of primary and parametric resonance and the effects of the control action. Afterwards, attention is focused on the response of the cable to transversal wind turbulence, whose fluctuating component is described by a random process with an assigned spectral density. The effectiveness of longitudinal control is analysed by means of numerical investigations.
Sommario. Si analizza il controllo attivo delle oscillazioni di un cavo sospeso, sottoposto all'azione di un vento agente in direzione ortogonale al piano del cavo e descritto mediante un termine di carico costante ed una componente variabile di turbolenza. Il controllo delle oscillazioni piane e spaziali viene realizzato mediante spostamento longitudinale di uno degli appoggi; la legge di controllo dipende linearmente o quadraticamente da misure di spostamento e velocità di un punto prescelto. In una prima fase, vengono studiate le oscillazioni stazionarie sotto carichi sinusoidali agenti rispettivamente nel piano e fuori del piano del cavo, intorno alla configurazione di equilibrio statico determinata dalla presenza della componente costante del vento, mostrando il comportamento nonlineare nelle regioni di risonanza primaria e parametrica e gli effetti dell'azione di controllo. Successivamente, si focalizza l'attenzione sulla risposta del cavo alla componente trasversale di turbolenza del vento, la quale è descritta da un processo stocastico a media nulla con densità spettrale assegnata. L'efficacia del controllo viene analizzata attraverso un'indagine numerica.
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Pasca, M., Vestroni, F. & Gattulli, V. Active Longitudinal Control of Wind-Induced Oscillations of a Suspended Cable. Meccanica 33, 255–266 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1004347130512
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