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Staged Construction Analysis for Cable Stayed BridgesIssues in handling cable-stayed bridges’ staged construction analysis
The cable-stayed bridge is one of the most aesthetic and efficient bridge types for water crossing. However, it is infamous for its resource-taking process for analysis and design, especially the cable force tuning process. This process requires engineers to perform numerous runs of analysis after each adjustment of cable force/stress. Due to the nature of cable bridges, 3D model of a cable-stayed bridge is often very large and composed of a great number of elements and DOFs. This results in wasting many hours of high-end engineers’ hours of time for manual iteration process.
What highly-skilled engineers need is to automate majority of cable force tuning while considering complex engineering issues like numerous stages, multiple tensioning, time dependent creep and shrinkage properties, and geometric nonlinearity (large displacement/catenary).
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