Abstract: A new methodology to determine the safety of suspension bridge main cables is proposed in this paper and illustrated by simulating the failure of a corrosion-deteriorated cable composed of 9,061 wires. The approach is the ...

Abstract: A new simplified contact model aimed at capturing the load transfer and recovery length in parallel steel wires, commonly used in main cables of suspension bridges, is presented. The approach is based on placing elastic–perfectly ...

Abstract: Previous analytical and experimental works have shown that the power output of a piezoelectric-based energy-harvesting module is nonlinearly proportional to compressive stresses. This study aims to identify an optimal set ...