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 ...
Lozano-Galant, Jose Antonio; Ruiz Ripoll, Lidia; Paya-Zaforteza I.; Turmo, José(VILNIUS GEDIMINAS TECH UNIV, SAULETEKIO AL 11, VILNIUS, LT-10223, LITHUANIA, 2014)
In current practice, the effects of the evolutionary erection of cable-stayed bridge superstructure are rarely included into the simulation of its tensioning process. In fact, stay forces in service are usually defined in ...