TY - JOUR
T1 - Wind loads on open truss structures
T2 - Applications of blockage to historic transporter bridges
AU - Carter, A. J.
AU - Taylor, P. H.
AU - Santo, H.
AU - Blakeborough, A.
PY - 2019/10
Y1 - 2019/10
N2 - The overall aim of this study is to compare and contrast the design of the two remaining working examples of early twentieth-century transporter bridges in the UK, namely, those at Newport and Middlesbrough.With the aid ofmodern finite-element analysis, the behaviour of the structures under loading is investigated, likely modes of failure determined and the efficiency of each structure evaluated. The important horizontal load component due to wind at the exposed locations of the bridges is examined using 'current blockage', ideas transferred from recent work on wave-current-structure interaction for space-frame structures in offshore engineering.
AB - The overall aim of this study is to compare and contrast the design of the two remaining working examples of early twentieth-century transporter bridges in the UK, namely, those at Newport and Middlesbrough.With the aid ofmodern finite-element analysis, the behaviour of the structures under loading is investigated, likely modes of failure determined and the efficiency of each structure evaluated. The important horizontal load component due to wind at the exposed locations of the bridges is examined using 'current blockage', ideas transferred from recent work on wave-current-structure interaction for space-frame structures in offshore engineering.
KW - Current blockage
KW - Transporter bridges
KW - Wind loading
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85071447063&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1098/rsta.2019.0017
DO - 10.1098/rsta.2019.0017
M3 - Article
C2 - 31424338
AN - SCOPUS:85071447063
SN - 1364-503X
VL - 377
JO - Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences
JF - Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences
IS - 2155
M1 - 20190017
ER -