Comparative study on fatigue evaluation of suspenders by introducing actual vehicle trajectory data

• Main Authors: Pan, Yue, Dong, Yiqing, Wang, Dalei, Cao, Sugong, Chen, Airong
• Other Authors: School of Civil and Environmental Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2024
• Subjects: Engineering; Fatigue assessment; Finite element analysis
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/174955
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Suspenders play a crucial role in transmitting loads from the bridge deck to the main cable in a suspension bridge. They are susceptible to fatigue due to repeated dynamic loads, particularly traffic loads. Traffic Load Models (TLMs), typically created using Monte-Carlo simulation and Weigh-In-Motio...