MODEL EXPERIMENTS OF CABLE-STAYED GUIDEWAYS

With the advent of electrically driven and computer controlled rapid transit vehicles for mass intraurban use, it has become necessary to investigate the dynamic efficiency of different types of elevated spans for these vehicles. In previous work involving moving point forces on continuous span bridges with hard piers, dynamic moments of nearly five times the static response of its simple span counterpart were measured. This paper looks to the alternative of a continuous cable-stayed bridge for a reduction in the moment amplification. Energy is expected to be distributed in more vibrational modes and partially absorbed by the cable supports.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • 2nd Annu ASCE Eng Mech Div Spec Conf. Adv in Civ Eng through Eng Mech, NC State Univ, Raleigh, May 23-25 1977.
• Corporate Authors:

  American Society of Civil Engineers

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• Authors:
  • Hunt-Atwater, K M
  • Wilson, J F
• Conference:
  • 2nd Annu ASCE Eng Mech Div Spec Conf. Adv in Civ Eng through Eng Mech, NC State Univ, Raleigh, May 23-25 1977.
• Publication Date: 1977

Media Info

• Pagination: p. 142-145

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Automated guideway transit; Cable stayed bridges; Cables; Elevated guideways; Guideways; Mathematical models; Structural analysis; Transportation
• Uncontrolled Terms: Models
• Old TRIS Terms: Automated guideway systems; Cable suspension guideways
• Subject Areas: Operations and Traffic Management; Transportation (General);

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00167972
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Engineering Index
• Report/Paper Numbers: Proceeding
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Dec 27 1982 12:00AM