A suspension bridge is an example of a nonlinear dynamic system, especially systems with the so called jumping nonlinearity. The fact that we deal with a serious and topical problem is demonstrated for example by the collapse of the Tacoma Narrow susp...
A suspension bridge is an example of a nonlinear dynamic system, especially systems with the so called jumping nonlinearity. The fact that we deal with a serious and topical problem is demonstrated for example by the collapse of the Tacoma Narrow suspension bridge. So it would be very contributive to determine under what conditions a similar situation cannot occur and find out safe parameters of the bridge construction. The aim of our paper is to summarize several models describing the behavior of suspension bridge.