Abstract
Long-span cable-stayed bridge is a typical wind-sensitive structure because of its light weight and great flexibility. The reliability evaluation of the cable-stayed bridge under wind action becomes a key issue during bridge design and operation. In this paper, taking Xiangshan Harbor highway cable-stayed bridge in Ningbo City in China as the engineering background, ANSYS 15.0 is used to build a finite element model of this bridge to explore its aerostatic stability and influencing parameters, then the static wind reliability of this bridge is analyzed. Firstly, considering the structural nonlinearity and the nonlinearity of static wind load comprehensively, the critical wind speed of aerostatic instability of the Xiangshan Harbor cable-stayed bridge is calculated by the internal and external double iteration method. Then the influence of the initial wind attack angle, steel wire breakage rate of the stay cables, static three-component force coefficients, and cable broken position on the static wind stability of this bridge are discussed. Thus, the variation rule of the critical aerostatic instability wind speed is obtained, and the parameter that has the greatest impact on the static wind stability of the cable-stayed bridge in service is determined. Finally, considering the randomness of these key parameters, they are treated as random variables, Latin hypercube sampling (LHS) method is used to obtain samples of random variables to calculate aerostatic instability wind speed for a given sample by self-written calculation program, and on this basis, static wind reliability analysis is conducted by the checking point method, which provides strong support for the static wind risk evaluation of the existing long-span cable-stayed bridge.
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