Accurate determination of cable force values is the most important technical means to avoid
damage to the cable bridge. In order to avoid the influence of the difficulty in distinguishing …

Vibration-based approaches have been widely adopted in determining the cable tension
force. The development of effective length concept has been successfully applied in …

A novel concept of combining the mode shape ratios with the modal frequencies was
recently introduced to develop an accurate method for the determination of stay cable force …

To establish a rigorous mathematical foundation for a recently developed tension
determination method incorporating the mode shape functions, the frequency equations and …

Considering the specific arrangement of boundary constraints for the suspenders of arch
bridge, this research extends a recently developed method to carry out the determination of …

This paper develops a method for precisely determining the tension of an inclined cable with
unknown boundary conditions. First, the nonlinear motion equation of an inclined cable is …

To apply the tension estimation method based on effective vibration lengths, it has been
clarified that the installation of at least one sensor near the high end of a stay cable or a …

Cost-efficient and theoretically simple vibration-based analyses are widely used to assess
the axial forces of tensioned members. In the determination of cable forces, the applicability …

Cable force estimation is essential for security assessment of cable-stayed bridges. Cable
force estimation methods based on the relationship between cable force and frequency …

Stay cables of cable-stayed bridges are connected by cross-ties to form a cable network, or
the slings of the same suspension points on a suspension bridge are connected by vibration …