The damper for vibration mitigation of stay cable is developed in this study. Developed damper is such a lead-shear type and it is installed at the inside of cable system not seen at the outside. Developed damper has advantages of maintenance free, hi...
The damper for vibration mitigation of stay cable is developed in this study. Developed damper is such a lead-shear type and it is installed at the inside of cable system not seen at the outside. Developed damper has advantages of maintenance free, high durability and gives much additional damping to stay cable. Each mathematical model of lead shear damper and cable-damper system is established. By those mathematical models, the effect of damper to stay cable is studied in the focus to the additional damping to stay cable and the ability for suppression of stay cable vibration. The cable is assumed to have parabolic profile and the damper is modeled by displacement dependent Kelvin model which has variable damping properties according to the damper displacement. The original elastoplastic hysteresis loop of damper is approximated by Bilinear model and, after that, viscoelastic hysteresis loop which has same area as Bilinear model is used to model the original elastoplatic hysteresis loop. The performance evaluation method for the damper is suggested. The performance of damper is evaluated and verified by comparing the measured with one damping ratio of cable-damper system designed. In the process of calculating the damping ratio from measured data, the effect of cable sag is considered. Proposed method is verified by applying to cable of Seo Hae bridge. The stiffness of damper affects the damping ability of such device. It deteriorates the additional damping value provided by damper. At the extreme, the stiffness of damper fixes the damper attached point and causes the extreme bending stress to the strands of cable. Thus it is necessary to minimize the stiffness of damper in the process of designing and manufacturing the damper without any degradation of damping property.