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Wind-induced nonlinear behaviors of twin-box girder bridges with various aerodynamic shapes

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Wind-induced nonlinear oscillations of twin-box girder bridges are very sensitive to the aerodynamic shape of the deck (i.e., slot width ratio (SWR) and wind fairing shape) due to the complicated flow characteristics around the bridge deck. This paper presents a fully integrated finite element (FE) model in time domain, involving a nonlinear aerodynamic force model and a bridge FE model, to allow the investigation of nonlinear oscillation behaviors of long-span twin-box girder bridges with various SWRs and wind fairing shapes. The parameters in integrated FE model were firstly identified by using CFD simulation, and then, the proposed model was validated by conducting wind tunnel testing using sectional models and full-bridge aeroelastic models. It demonstrates that the developed integrated model has the capability of simulating the nonlinear flutter behaviors of twin-box girder bridges with various aerodynamic shapes. Furthermore, the prediction results show that the wind fairing shape has significant impact on the degree of freedom participation in coupled oscillation and failure modes, as well as flutter performance of the bridges. In addition, there is an increase in amplitudes of the limit cycle oscillations with the increase in the SWR of the twin-box girder bridges, and the relationships between the bending-torsional coupled oscillation, failure modes, and SWR of the bridges with anti-symmetric wind fairings are opposite to those with symmetric wind fairings.

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The authors gratefully acknowledge the support for the research work jointly provided by the National Science Foundations of China (No.51678436 and No.51323013), the National Key Basic Research Program of China (973 Program) (No. 2013CB036300). A special acknowledgement is to Dr. Liu shiyi for his valuable helpful in the C# program.

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  1. Institute of Urban Smart Transportation and Safety Maintenance, Shenzheng University, Shenzhen, 518060, China

    Rui Zhou & Yanliang Du

  2. State Key Lab for Disaster Reduction in Civil Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai, 200092, China

    Yaojun Ge & Yongxin Yang

  3. Department of Infrastructure Engineering, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, 3010, Australia

    Lihai Zhang

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Zhou, R., Ge, Y., Yang, Y. et al. Wind-induced nonlinear behaviors of twin-box girder bridges with various aerodynamic shapes. Nonlinear Dyn 94, 1095–1115 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11071-018-4411-y

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