The temporary supports erection method is a fast and economical way of building cable-stayed bridges. In this method the bridge deck is first erected on a set of temporary and permanent supports and then, the stays are ...
This paper proposes a new and innovative algorithm, the Direct Algorithm (DA), which introduces, for the very first time, the unstressed length of the stays concept into the modeling of the construction process of cable-stayed ...
Traditionally the construction process of cable-stayed bridges is modeled according to the backward approach, as its calculation is much easier using an elastic analysis. In this approach the bridge is disassembled according ...