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Eccentric-wing flutter stabilizer – Simplified analysis and main findings

 Eccentric-wing flutter stabilizer – Simplified analysis and main findings
Author(s): ORCID
Presented at IABSE Congress: The Evolving Metropolis, New York, NY, USA, 4-6 September 2019, published in , pp. 2580-2585
DOI: 10.2749/newyork.2019.2580
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A device aiming at preventing bridge flutter is studied. It consists of fixed wings positioned with a large lateral offset along the edges of the bridge deck. The wings are attached to the bridge d...
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Author(s): ORCID (Hamburg University of Technology)
Medium: conference paper
Language(s): English
Conference: IABSE Congress: The Evolving Metropolis, New York, NY, USA, 4-6 September 2019
Published in:
Page(s): 2580-2585 Total no. of pages: 6
Page(s): 2580-2585
Total no. of pages: 6
DOI: 10.2749/newyork.2019.2580
Abstract:

A device aiming at preventing bridge flutter is studied. It consists of fixed wings positioned with a large lateral offset along the edges of the bridge deck. The wings are attached to the bridge deck by means of lateral support structures. Flutter analyses for various kinds of bridges and wind-tunnel tests confirm the flutter-suppression effectiveness of the wings. They constitute a passive damping device without moving parts. This is an advantage over devices with moving parts, which meet resistance due to reliability and maintenance concerns. The main findings to date concerning analysis, flutter-suppression effectiveness, and cost-efficiency of the eccentric-wing flutter stabilizer are summarized. In addition, a simplified approach for the analysis of torsional flutter of a bridge equipped with this device is presented and applied to the first Tacoma Narrows Bridge. It is found that with relatively small effort the flutter stability of that bridge could have been substantially improved.

Keywords:
design bridge torsion wind-induced vibration flutter cost passive control fixed wing