Active tendon control of cable stayed bridges a large scale demonstration.

This paper presents a strategy for active damping of cable structures, using active tendons. The first part of the paper summarizes the theoretical background : the control law is briefly presented together with the main results of an approximate linear theory which allows the prediction of closed l...

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Published in:Earthquake engineering & structural dynamics. 30, 7 (2001).
Main Author: Bossens, Frederic
Format: Article
Language:English