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Some General Results on the Nonlinear Static and Dynamic Behaviour of Stay Cables under Temperature Variations

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 Symposium Applied and Computational Mechanics
November, 24th and 25th, 2016 at ENIT

Some General Results on the Nonlinear Static and Dynamic Behaviour of Stay
Cables under Temperature Variations
A CHREF M ANSOUR , O THMAN B EN M EKKI AND S AMI M ONTASSAR

I NTRODUCTION T HERMAL EFFECT ON THE CABLE ’ S STATIC TENSION

∆θ = (− 40) ° C ∆θ = 40 ° C
−2 −2
10 10
The elastic catenary theory is adopted to in- 0.9

1.
5

05
vestigate the static and dynamic behaviour of stay
cables subjected to uniformly distributed thermal

0.95
1.05
load. The catenary approach is used in contrast 1.1

to the well known parabolic method introduced

by Irvine [1]. The accuracy of the proposed solu-

η
1.1
5

0.
85
tion is demonstrated through comparisons with

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1.05
1.2

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different models based on the parabolic approach

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1.2
5

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[2]. 1.3

75
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0.

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−3 −3
C ABLE FUNDAMENTAL PARAMETERS 10 10
−3 −2 −1 −3 −2 −1
10 10 10 10 10 10
τ τ
l α α
Tθ
A Evolution of dimensionless ratio in terms of (τα ,η) for ∆θ = ±40◦ C
N T
α X
s
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T HERMAL EFFECT ON THE EQUIVALENT TANGENT MODULUS
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β
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y xxx mcg
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xxx ∆θ = ( − 40 ) ° C ∆θ = 40 ° C
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ds B 10
−2
10
−2

N+dN Y T
dX
v u
L
dY
ds 1.1

0.
9
1.1

0.9
η

η
– α the arbitrary inclination with respect to the X-axis of the cable’s chord direction, 1.2
– mc the mass per unit strained length,

0.8
– Ac the non deformable cable cross-section,
– Ec the cable’s Young modulus,
– l = cos αL the horizontal projection of the chord cable length L,

0.9
1.3
1.1

0.
−3 −3

7
– T = H/ cos α the equivalent along-the-chord thrust and H the horizontal com- 10 10
4
1.2

1.

0.
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6
ponent of cable’s tension T , 1. 7 0.5
1. 0.4
– κ the thermal expansion coefficient of the cable’s material. 1.8
1.9 0.3
2

A NALYTICAL TREATMENT 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.5 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.5
τ τ
α α
Considering a uniform temperature variation defined with respect to the the initial catenary
Et,θ
profile given by: Evolution of dimensionless ratio in terms of (τα ,η) for ∆θ = ±40◦ C
Et,0
 
cosh (C1 ) − cosh C1 − τ x
y (x, τ ) L
=
L τ
T HERMAL EFFECT ON CABLE ’ S IN PLANE DYNAMIC BEHAVIOUR
r
the cable’s tension at the thermally stressed configuration is determined by solving the cubic Tθ
equation [3] mc
Defining the cable’s dynamic configuration around the thermally stressed static equilibrium, the vibration frequency related to the kth antisymmetric mode is defined as fθ = ,
L
Tθ
!3
Tθ
!2
Tθ
! while the vibration frequency of kth symmetric mode is obtained by solving the following equation:
+ A2 + A1 + A0 = 0
T T T
Ω3
 !
 Ωk Ωk k 2
tan = − ; λα,θ : Irvine parameter defined as:


2λ2

where: 2 2


α,θ



 2
τα τ2


 τ 2 mc gl Tθ

A0 = ǫθ − 1


; A1 =
 2 θ
λα,θ = ; τθ = ; ηθ = ; χ : the curvature parameter tending to unity according to parabolic approach
 


 

24η 12 ηθ χ Tθ Ec Ac







2 τ2

ǫθ τα mc gl






 A2 = −1+ − ǫθ = κ∆θ ; τ = ∆θ = ( − 40 ) ° C ∆θ = 40 ° C
η 24η 12 T
 −2 −2
10 10
1.02

T






 τα = τ cos α ; η =
Ec Ac






τ eτ


  q  1.
 04
C1 (τ ) = ln C + C 2 + eτ

C (τ ) = tan α ;
1.02



eτ − 1

The Dischinger tangent modulus for small and moderate tension variations is then genera-
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06

lized as follows:
η

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08
2
" #
τα 2

1.04

τ
0.

1 − ǫθ 1+ −η 1+
9

1.1
dT L 8 4
∗
Et = = Ec 1.1
dL Ac τ 2 
η
 2
1+ α
0.95

1 − ǫθ −
1.02

1.1
0.

12η cos2 α 4
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C ONCLUSION 10
−3
10
−3
−3 −2 −1 −3 −2 −1
– Constant variation of the cable’s tension with respect to dimensionless parameter 10 10 10 10 10 10
−2 τ τ
α α
τα (resp. η) in case of taut cables characterized by τα ≤ 10 (resp. moderately
taut and loose cables), fθ
Evolution of ratio specific to the antisymmetric modes of cable vibration for in terms of (τα ,η) for ∆θ = ±40◦ C
f0
– Symmetric response of the cable’s static tension under opposite thermal load
◦
 
∆θ = ±40 C reaching a variation of 30% for moderately loose cables

−1
 ∆θ = ( − 40 ) ° C ∆θ = 40 ° C
τα ≃ 10 , −2 −2
10 10
1
1.02

– Strong dependency of the equivalent tangent modulus on the tem-

1

perature change characterized by an asymmetric non-linear va-

1

◦
riation for ∆θ = ±40 C reaching high levels of variation
1
1

◦ ◦
 
100% for ∆θ = −40 C and 70% for ∆θ = 40 C ,
1.04

1.02

s
fθ Tθ
– Taking into account the relation : = , same variation observed in case
0.95

f T
of antisymmetric vibration modes as for the evolution of the static tension, Reverse
1.06
η

Behaviour Reverse
Behaviour
– Reverse response of symmetric mode frequencies for special values of Irvine para-
1

∗ Hybrid
1.08

 
meter λα,θ = 2nπ, n ∈ N : a 5% increase (resp. decrease)of the vibration Modes Zone Hybrid
0.9

Modes Zone
frequencies under positive (resp. negative) temperature variation.
1.1

λ = 2π 1 1
1.04

α,θ
λ = 2π
α,θ
1.02

R EFERENCES
[1] H. M. Irvine. Cable structures. The MIT Press, Cambridge, 1981. −3 −3
10 −2 −1 0
10 −2 −1 0
10 10 10 10 10 10
[2] M. Lepidi V. and Gattulli. Static and dynamic response of elastic suspended cables with τ τ
thermal effects. International Journal of Solids and Structures, 49:1103–1116, 2012. α α
fθ
Evolution of dimensionless ratio specific to the first symmetric mode of cable vibration in terms of (τα ,η)for ∆θ = ±40◦ C
[3] G. Vairo and S. Montassar. Mechanical modelling of stays under thermal loads. Mecha- f0
nics, Models and Methods in Civil Engineering, Lecture Notes in Applied and Computational
Mechanics, Michel Frémond and Franco Maceri Eds., 61:481–498, 2011.

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