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Design of Cable-Supported Bridges: Control Strategies

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Cable-supported bridges; Cable-stayed bridge control; Performance-based design; Structural control; Suspension-bridge control

Introduction

The introduction of cable-supported bridges in modern-day bridge engineering, in the form of cable-stayed and suspension bridges, allowed to overcome spans unimagined decades ago. This was helped by advances in construction, materials, equipment, and numerical methods. Nowadays, the implementation of cable-supported structural schemes allows to span lengths in the range from 200 m to 2,000 m (and beyond), thus covering approximately 90 % of the present span range (Gimsing and Georgakis 2012).

Cable-supported bridges are basically divided into two types: cable-stayed and suspension bridges. Although both have as common factor the cable support, their geometry and structural configuration are radically different.

Cable-stayed bridges, in which the bridge deck is supported by straight cables directly by the pylons, emerged in their modern form...

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  1. Department of Structural and Geotechnical Engineering, Sapienza University of Rome, Via Eudossiana 18, 00184, Rome, Italy

    Konstantinos Gkoumas, Francesco Petrini & Franco Bontempi

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  1. Institute for Risk & Uncertainty, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom

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    Ioannis A. Kougioumtzoglou

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Gkoumas, K., Petrini, F., Bontempi, F. (2021). Design of Cable-Supported Bridges: Control Strategies. In: Beer, M., Kougioumtzoglou, I., Patelli, E., Au, IK. (eds) Encyclopedia of Earthquake Engineering. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-36197-5_320-1

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