ABCM CABLE STRUCTURE

VIRAJ PADHIYAR
AR-17-050
WHAT ARE CABLE STRUCTURES?

• Cables offer high tensile strength as a principle means of

support. Cables are an essential part to bridge design for long
spans. They also offer great strength for heavy roof loads allowing
long spans with no central support. Cables can also be used to
support membranes. Cables require frequent upkeep due to the
exposed steel having a tendency to rust. A cables basic form when
strung from end to end is a catenary curve.
TYPES OF CABLE SUPPORTED STRUCTURE
Types of Cables There are generally two types of
cables structures: Suspension Bridge
• Suspension bridges is normally limited to two
towers.
• Suspension bridges require more cables
• Construction time is longer for suspension bridges.
• Suspension Bridges possess less stiffness and
display larger deflections when compared with cable type, makes life easier for their designers and
stayed bridges
• The deck of a suspension bridge is usually
suspended by vertical hangers, though But the
structure is essentially flexible, and great effort must constructed by building out from the towers.
be made to withstand the effects of traffic and wind
• Suspension Bridge is not made of cantilevers Cable
Stayed Bridge
• Cable-stayed bridges lies in the fact that it can be
built with any number of towers
• Cable Stayed Bridges require less cables
• Construction time is less for cable stayed bridges.
• Cable-stayed bridges possess higher stiffness and
display smaller deflections when compared with
suspension bridges
• The greater inherent rigidity of the triangulated
cable-stayed bridges, compared with the suspension
builders.
• A great advantage of the cable-stayed bridge is that
it is essentially made of cantilevers, and can be
EXPLAIN THE ABOVE CLASSIFICATIONS WITH ONE EXAMPLE EACH.

• The Yale University Hockey Rink in New Heaven, Connecticut uses cables to support its roof panels. This
building has a unique design in which it has a central backbone along the roof of the structure in which
cables are strung down to the outer walls. The center concrete backbone arch is in compression and
supported by columns on the outer parts of the building. The inside is column free. Cables are then strung
from the backbone to the arched outer walls in which wood planks are placed on top of the cables. To
prevent lateral movement six cables are placed in tension above the roof and attached from backbone to
outer walls (three on each side).
• The Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas is an example of using cable-stayed in roof design. The roof panels
are held up by cables in tension running to vertical towers on the outside of the structure. The tower is in
compression and to prevent lateral movement a series of cables in two directions run from the tower to the
ground on the outside of the building. It opened in 1993.