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Cable stayed bridges

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Second edition

Rene Walther,

Professor of Structural Engineering,

Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne

Bernard Houriet, Walmar Isler, Pierre Mo| a, Jean-Francois Klein

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First published in English 1988
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This book is dedicated to

Professor Fritz Leonhardt

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Contents
1.

Introduction

2.

Historical review

3.

General design

17

3.1.

Introduction

19

3.2.

Layout of cable stays

19

3.3.

Deck

39

3.4.

Pylons

63

4.

Parametric study

75

4.1.

Introduction

77

4.2.

Influence of stay layout

77

4.3.

Influence of deck inertia

80

4.4.

Influence of pylon inertia on first order forces

82

4.5.

Influence of connections between pylons and deck

83

5.

Stay technology

87

5.1.

Introduction

89

5.2.

Cables

89

5.3.

Anchorages

93

5.4.

Protection of cables

99

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6.

Static design

103

6.1.

Introduction

105

6.2.

Loads

106

6.3.

Idealisation of the structure

108

6.4.

Stays

110

6.5.

Pylons

121

6.6.

Design of the deck

133

6.7.

Erection

135

7.

Dynamic analysis

137

7.1.

Introduction

139

7.2.

Natural frequencies and principal modes of vibration

139

7.3.

Aerodynamic behaviour

142

7.4.

Physiological effects of vibration

148

7.5.

Seismic behaviour

152

7.6.

Practical examples

157

8.

Examples of small and medium-span cable

stayed bridges

167

8.1.

Introduction

169

8.2.

Pedestrian footbridges

169

8.3.

Road bridges

191

8.4.

Railway bridges

202

8.5.

Aqueducts, canal bridges and pipe-bridges

204

8.6.

The Aberfeldy Footbridge

208

9.

Model tests of a cable stayed bridge with a slender

concrete deck

211

9.1.

Test aims and experimental layout

213

9.2.

Load cases tested

215

9.3.

Test results

217

9.4.

Conclusions

222

Photographic credits

225