A new approach for determining the onset velocity of galloping instability taking into account the nonlinearity of the aerodynamic damping characteristic

Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics

Volumn 69-71, Issue , 1997, Pages 303-314

  Ziller, Claudia ^a   Ruscheweyh, Hans ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Full scale observations; Galloping vibrations, vertical and torsional mode; Nonlinear damping characteristic; Section model technique; Stability parameters; Wind tunnel tests

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; DAMPING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OSCILLATIONS; STABILITY; STRUCTURES (BUILT OBJECTS); TESTING; VELOCITY; VIBRATIONS (MECHANICAL); WIND; WIND TUNNELS;

GALLOPING; SLENDER STRUCTURES; TORSIONAL MODE; VERTICAL MODE;

AERODYNAMICS;

AERODYNAMICS; INSTABILITY; OSCILLATION; WIND;

EID: 0031177830     PISSN: 01676105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-6105(97)00164-5     Document Type: Article

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