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Enhancing Seismic Performance of Cable-Stayed Bridges using Tuned Mass Dampers

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Last updated: 23 Jan 2023

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Structural

Abstract

Enhancing the seismic performance of cable stayed bridges (CSBs) gained increasing attention over the past few decades. A TMD is a comparatively lightweight component consisting of a mass and springs tuned to oscillate at nearly the same frequency of the structure but with a phase shift. Reduction of vibrations is achieved by transferring some of the structural vibration energy to the TMD and dissipating the energy by the inertia. The aim of this paper is to investigate how TMD could enhance the performance of CSBs. Finite element analysis has been performed to assess the optimum value of TMD mass ratio by comparing the performance of the CSB before and after incorporating the TMD under different excitation records. Results shows that, the presence of TMD leads to a noticeable improvement in different responses. For μ values between 0.25% and 0.5%, the bridge shows the best performance. Also, for μ > 1% the efficiency of using the TMD does not show significant increase that warrant the cost and difficulty of implementation which makes no need to increase the mass of TMD.

DOI

10.21608/erjeng.2022.143309.1070

Keywords

cable-stayed bridges, Earthquakes, Tuned mass damper

Authors

First Name

Mohammed

Last Name

Alshaer

MiddleName

Fouad

Affiliation

Structural department, Faculty of engineering, Tanta university, Tanta, Egypt

Email

mohammedalshaer@f-eng.tanta.edu.eg

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First Name

Amr

Last Name

Elkady

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Affiliation

Structural Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Tanta University, Tanta, Egypt.

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amrzaki@f-eng.tanta.edu.eg

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First Name

Mohamed

Last Name

Mahmoud Sakr

MiddleName

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Affiliation

Professor of Structural Engineering

Email

mohamed.sakr2@f-eng.tanta.edu.eg

City

TANTA

Orcid

0000-0003-2863-3574

First Name

Ayman

Last Name

Seleemah

MiddleName

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Affiliation

Professor of Structural Engineering

Email

seleemah@f-eng.tanta.edu.eg

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TANTA

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Volume

6

Article Issue

2

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35736

Issue Date

2022-06-01

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2022-05-07

Publish Date

2022-06-01

Page Start

45

Page End

49

Print ISSN

2356-9441

Online ISSN

2735-4873

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https://erjeng.journals.ekb.eg/article_244930.html

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6

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1,605

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Publication Title

Journal of Engineering Research

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23 Jan 2023