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### Lat. Am. j. solids struct. vol.14 no.13 Rio de Janeiro  2017

#### http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/1679-78253872

Articles

Experiment and Calculation Method of the Dynamic Response of Deep Water Bridge in Earthquake

a School of Civil Engineering, North China University of Technology, Beijing 100144, PR China

Abstract

For deep-water long span bridges under earthquakes, the interaction between water and structure will inevitably induce the hydrodynamic force on the structures. Based on the Morison potential fluid theory, a simplified calculation method of hydrodynamic force was proposed. Taken the 3rd Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge in China as the prototype, the shaking table test for the elevated pile caps was performed. And the results from the experiment and the proposed simplified calculation method were analyzed and compared. The main conclusions include: the natural vibration frequency of the bridge in deep water is decreased, and the predominant frequency is reduced by 8.24% due to the water-structure interaction. In earthquake, the effect of hydrodynamic force on the dynamic response of the deep water bridge is significant that the bending moment of the main girder is increased 7.73% and the bottom bending moment of the most adverse pile is increased 14.22%. In the seismic design of deep-water bridges, the effect of water-structure interaction should not be ignored.

Keywords: Bridge; water-structure interaction; hydrodynamic force; deep water; shaking table test

1 INTRODUCTION

In order to across wider open water, bridges are developing towards longer span and deeper water (Feng 2009, Xiang 1998). Due to the long span and high pier, the bridges have a larger natural vibration period. Under earthquakes, the water acts on the underwater component of the bridge in the form of hydrodynamic force. Reflected as the viscous effect, inertia effect and diffraction effect, the hydrodynamic force may significantly change the vibration characteristics and seismic response of the bridges (Wei 2013 and Huang 2011), and even lead to girder falling and pier damage (Zhuang 2009). Therefore, as an important factor the hydrodynamic force should be considered in the seismic design of deep water bridge.

In the aspect of calculation method, many analytical approaches and numerical methods have been proposed to solve the hydrodynamic effect (Jiang 2016, Xing 2003 and Bouaanani 2010). Westergaard (1993) firstly analyzed the hydrodynamic force acting on the vertical dam under earthquake and put forward the analytical solution. Based on the analytical approaches, Liaw (1974) and Chopra (1991) deduced the analytical solution of the hydrodynamic force acting on the flexible cylinder and the gravity dam by radiation wave theory, and studied the coupling vibration effect of the surrounding water and cantilever column. Whereas, the semi analytical and semi numerical approaches could combine the advantages of analytical methods and numerical methods. Morison (1950) proposed the semi analytical solution in the form of the additional mass of the hydrodynamic force acting on the slender cylinder which diameter smaller than the wavelength of the flow, which is the Morison equation widely used by national specifications (JRA 1995, GSDHB 2008, CHSH 2008). Goto (1965) also put forward the other additional mass method by converting the hydrodynamic force into the static load under earthquake. Based on the radiation wave theory, Lai Wei (2006, 2007) proposed a semi analytical and semi numerical approach of hydrodynamic force considering the elastic deformation of piers. Combined the Morison equation and the radiation wave theory, Huang (2011) discussed the effect of hydrodynamic force on the pier in deep water under earthquake. Based on the Morison equation, Li (2011) discussed the effect of hydrodynamic force on the long span girder bridges. The numerical method is a multi field coupling finite element method based on the potential fluid theory, which has been widely used in the field of dynamic fluid-structure interaction such as dams (Bathe 1999, Bouaanani 2009). Taken the piers of bridge as the target, Wei (2013) verified the validity of the numerical method based on the potential fluid theory by the experiment of the coupling system of the bridge pile group foundation and water.

However, the foundation of long-span deep water bridge mainly consists of a group of long piles extending to the ground soil below the water surface and connecting with a large cap. In addition to the piles, the caps of the foundation partially or totally submerged in water, thus contributed to the dynamic fluid-structure interaction. Most of the previous studies in this field, however, focused on single cylindrical column submerged in water, and the dynamic behavior of bridges foundations with grouped piles was rarely investigated, especially when the pile cap was also surrounded partially or totally by water. An extensive literature reviews also highlighted the scarcity of published experimental work to validate the numerical method of fluid-structure interaction effects when investigating the dynamic behavior of bridge with pile foundation submerged in water under earthquake. For the above reasons, this work is aimed to assess the effects of hydrodynamic force on the seismic response of long-span deep water bridge. Firstly, based on the Morison equation, a simplified calculation method of hydrodynamic force acting on the group piles under earthquake is proposed. Subsequently, the experiment is performed to further validate the proposed simplified method. Finally, the effect of hydrodynamic force on the vibration characteristic and the dynamic response of the main components of the long-span deep water cable-stayed bridge are studied. And the results clarify the effect of hydrodynamic force on deep water bridges, which provides valuable guidance for seismic design of bridge.

2 SIMPLIFIED CALCULATION METHOD FOR HYDRODYNAMIC FORCE ON SLENDER STRUCTURES

Based on the Morison's potential fluid theory (Morison 1950), it is assumed that the effect of fluid on the structure is caused by the acceleration field and velocity field, and the effect of structure on the movement of fluid could be ignored. Therefore, the hydrodynamic force acting on the column includes two components: one is the inertial force F I and the other is the drag force F D on the column due to the effect of viscous and swirl (as shown in Figure 1).

Then the hydrodynamic force on the surface of the cylinder could be defined as

F(x,z,t)=FI+FD=(CM1)ρΔV(u˙x¨)+12CDρAp(ux˙)|(ux˙)| (1)

Here, ϱ is the density of the fluid, ΔV is the volume of the submerged structure, A p is the area of the column section, u and u˙ are the absolute velocity and acceleration of the fluid respectively, x¨ and x˙ are the relative acceleration and velocity of the column respectively, C M is the inertia coefficient and C D is the drag force coefficient of the fluid.

As the effect of the column on the fluid is ignored, the movement of the column will not cause the movement of the fluid. So the velocity and acceleration of the fluid are zero. The total hydrodynamic force on the unit length of the column along the X-axis direction can be expressed as

Fw=(CM1)ρΔVx¨12CDρApx˙|x˙| (2)

A movement equation of the entire column system under earthquake could be expressed as

Mx¨+Cx˙+Kx=Mx¨g(CM1)ρΔV(x¨+x¨g)12CDρApx˙|x˙| (3)

Here, x¨g is the acceleration of the ground motion.

Previous study results (Goto 1965, Lai 2006) showed that the drag force acting on the column was much less than the inertial force under earthquake, so the hydrodynamic drag force could be negligible for most structures except some flexible structures. Therefore, a simplified method is put forward to calculate the hydrodynamic force acted on submerged columns with larger stiffness under earthquake. Based on the simplified method, the movement equation of the system of the submerged column and fluid under earthquake could be expressed as

Mx¨+Cx˙+Kx=Mx¨g(CM1)ρΔV(x¨+x¨g) (4)

And the dynamic analysis model is shown in Figure 2. Assuming that the relative velocity of the water and the structure would be constant between two adjacent units, the force on the node i is half of the sum of forces on the connected units. The additional mass of water M iw on the node i could be defined as

Miw=(CM1)ρΔVlij (5)

Here, the node j is adjacent to node i, l ij is half of the efficient length between node i and j.

Therefore, the movement equation of the entire system under earthquake can be expressed as:

Mx¨+Cx˙+Kx=Mx¨gMw(x¨+x¨g) (6)

From these, the dynamic analysis procedure of the slender column under earthquake considering the effect of the hydrodynamic force is simplified. By the method, the additional mass converting directly from the hydrodynamic inertia force could solve the motion equation of a deep water bridge under earthquake. Therefore, the method makes it possible to analyze the seismic response of the whole model of the deep water bridge under earthquake.

3 EXPERIMENTAL PROGRAM

3.1 Experimental Setup and Tested Specimens

In order to validate the simplified calculation method of hydrodynamic force when investigating the dynamic behavior of bridge with pile foundation submerged in water under earthquake, the shaking table tests of the group pile foundation were carried out. The reduced scale models tested in this study derived from the pile foundation of the 3rd Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge in China. The bridge is a double cable plane and five span continuous steel box girder cable-stayed bridge with a total length of 1288m and a 648m main span. The specific layout of bridge is shown in Figure 3. The bridge has two towers with 215m height. There are 4 horizontal beams on the tower (as shown in Figure 4). The lower part of the tower is made of Chinese Grade C50 concrete and the height is 36.32m. The upper of the tower is made of Chinese Grade Q420B steel and 178.68m height. The steel component of the tower was embedded in the concrete. The steel girder is 1288m length, 37.2m width and 3.2m height (as shown in Figure 5). The girder is divided into total 89 segments and the length of every general segment is 15m.

The bridge has 84m(29m elevated pile caps (as shown in Figure 6). There are 30 piles under every elevated pile caps and 15 piles with 3m diameter under each round section. The maximum water depth of the elevated pile caps is 45m. The height of pile is 50m, and the diameter is 3m, the design axial force of the pile is 2000t. The equivalent consolidation depth method is used to simplify the dynamic effect of soil on the pile. The elastic modulus E of the cylindrical pile is 3.25(103MPa, the density ( is 2500kg/m3, and the Poisson's ratio μ is 0.3. Elastic modulus Ev of the water is 2.2(103MPa and the density ( is 1000kg/m3.

The tests were carried out at the Structure Laboratory of University of Science and Technology Beijing. This laboratory is equipped with the earthquake simulation shaking table which is served by an electrohydraulic energy control system. The platform size of the shaking table is 1.5 m×1.5 m. The maximum load capacity is 5t. The maximum horizontal driving displacement and speed are ± 200 mm and ± 500 mm/s. The maximum horizontal acceleration is ± 1.0g and the working frequency (f) ranges from 0.4 to 40 Hz. The dimensions of the model box are 2.0 m (L)×1.3 m (W)×1.5 m (H). The model box is made of steel frame with steel plate on the bottom.

Due to the limitation of the experiment conditions, only half of the prototype foundation was simulated in the model. The similarity coefficients of the reduced scale model are shown in Table 1. The reduced scale pile foundation specimen in air and in water are shown in Figure 7. The elevated cap was made of reinforced concrete and the piles were made of steel pipes. The distribution of measuring points is shown in Figure 8.

Table 1: Similarity Coefficient of the Model.

Physical Quantity Similarity Coefficient Physical Quantity Similarity Coefficient
Length S l=1.50 Inertial Force S F =2.75×10-3
Modulus of Elasticity S E=6.87 Hydrodynamic S P = Sl =0.02
Equivalent Density S ρ=6.87 Flexural moment S M=5.5×10-5
Acceleration S α=1 Frequency S f=33.5
Stress S σ= S E=6.87 Time S t=0.03
Strain S ε= S σ/S E=6.87 Displacement S μ= S l =0.02

Wave absorbing devices were installed on the sides of the water tank which were perpendicular to the direction of the input waves in order to eliminate the reflected waves.

3.2 Experimental Results

First of all, the effect of fluid-structure interaction on the natural vibration characteristic of the pile foundation in experiment was analyzed, and the results were compared with the proposed simplified numerical method of the hydrodynamic force. Here, D represented the difference between the experimental and the calculated values (as seen the equation (7)). The natural vibration frequency of the model in air and water are shown in Table 2. Both in air and in water, the natural frequencies of the model obtained through the simplified numerical method basically coincide with the results from the experiment, so does the natural vibration period. After all, all differences do not exceed ± 3%. At the same time, estimated by half power method, the damping ratio were 0.006 and 0.012 in air and in water, respectively.

D=Experimental results- Calculation resultsCalculation results×100% (7)

Table 2: Comparison of Natural Vibration Obtained from the Simplified Method and the Shaking Table Test.

Methods In air In water
Frequency(Hz) Period(s) Frequency(Hz) Period(s)
Experimental Value 10.100 0.099 6.881 0.145
Calculated Value 9.891 0.101 7.022 0.142
D (%) -2.08 2.13 2.03 -2.07

Under harmonic waves and earthquake waves, the dynamic responses of the model in water were analyzed with the experiment and the simplified method. Here, 1Hz, 3Hz, 5Hz and 7Hz harmonic waves, and Tianjin and Takatori earthquake waves were input as the seismic load. The distribution of the peak horizontal acceleration along the height of the model are compared in Figure 9-Figure 11, here the peak accelerations of the waves were adjusted to 100Gal and 200Gal.

By comparing the dynamic responses, the peak horizontal acceleration of the model in water by the experiment and the simplified calculation method were close, and there was only a certain deviation in some cases. The maximum deviations under 100Gal/7Hz and 200Gal/7Hz harmonic loads are 15.4% and 10.5% respectively, the maximum deviations under the Tianjin wave and the Takatori wave are 9.0% and 12.5% respectively.

4 STUDY OF THE CABLE-STAYED BRIDGE BASED ON THE SIMPLIFIED CALCULATION METHOD OF HYDRODYNAMIC FORCE

In order to investigate the effect of fluid-structure interaction on cable-stayed bridges, the 3rd Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge in China was selected as the prototype. The bridge is located in Class II site with seismic fortification intensity VIII. The 3D finite element model of the bridge was built. In the model, the 3D beam element is used to simulate the towers, the girder and the piles, the bar element is used to simulate the cables, the solid element is used to simulate the lower cap. In the model, the influence of the adjacent spans is ignored. The connection between the main bridge and the approach span is free translation in the longitudinal direction, and free rotation in longitudinal and horizontal directions. In addition, the embedded depth of the group piles is 3 times of the pile diameter under scouring line in the model. The analysis model of the bridge is shown in Figure 12. The boundary conditions of the model are listed in Table 3.

Table 3: Boundary Condition of the Bridge Model.

Position Degree of freedom
x y z θ x θ y θ z
Pile end under main tower 1 1 1 1 1 1
Main tower and main girder 0 1 1 1 0 0
Side pier, auxiliary pier and main girder 0 1 1 1 0 0

Note: axes x is the longitudinal direction, axes y is the horizontal direction, axes z is in the vertical direction. θ x , θ y , θ z are the rotation around axes x, y and z respectively. “0” presents freedom, and the “1” presents constraint or fixed.

4.1 Effect of Hydrodynamic Force on the Natural Characteristic of the Bridge

The natural characteristics analysis is the foundation of the seismic response of the cable-stayed bridge. So the effect of hydrodynamic force on the natural characteristics of the bridge was analyzed. For the cable-stayed bridge, the longitudinal vibration mode is the dominant contribution to the longitudinal seismic response of the bridge. For the floating system, the longitudinal vibration mode is usually the lowest order vibration mode. Without considering the hydrodynamic force, the fundamental frequency of the longitudinal floating mode is 0.170Hz, the fundamental frequency of the lateral bending mode is 0.186Hz, and the frequency of the vertical bending mode is 0.276Hz. After considering the hydrodynamic force on the bridge, the vibration frequency decreases. And the frequency of the longitudinal floating mode is reduced to 0.156Hz, the lateral bending frequency decreases to 0.169Hz, and the vertical fundamental frequency is reduced to 0.253Hz. The frequency ratio of considering the hydrodynamic force to without the hydrodynamic force are 91.76%, 90.86% and 91.67% respectively. The influence of hydrodynamic force on the natural vibration characteristics of cable-stayed bridges is obvious.

4.2 Effect of Hydrodynamic Force on the Dynamic Response of the Bridge under Earthquake

In order to investigate the effect of fluid-structure interaction on the dynamic response of the bridge in earthquake, 4 seismic waves belonging to the Type1 and the Type2 respectively were selected to simulate the far-fault and near-fault earthquakes according to the Code for Bridge Design V in Japan (1995). As the effect of the hydrodynamic force on the seismic response of the bridge under vertical earthquake could be ignored (Uniform Building Code 1997), only the horizontal waves were put in the model. And the peak acceleration of the seismic waves was adjusted to 200Gal according to the seismic design intensity. The adjusted waves are shown in Figure 13.

4.2.1 Effect of Hydrodynamic Force on the Main Girder

In order to reflect the influence of hydrodynamic force on the internal force of the cable-stayed bridge, the coefficient R (as seen in the equation (8)) is used to express the influence of the hydrodynamic force on the maximum earthquake response of the bridge. As shown in Figure 14, the hydrodynamic force has a significant influence on the internal force of the main girder.

R=Experimental results-Calculation resultsCalculation results×100% (8)

The distribution of the R along the main girder is complex. Due to the hydrodynamic force, the axial force of the main girder is generally reduced, especially in the middle position the axial force is reduced up to 7.52%. Whereas, the vertical shear in the main girder decreases in all position, the maximum occurs at the middle of the span which reaches 11.77% under T2-II-3 wave. But the vertical shear force of the main girder increases in the position of the main tower, and the maximum reaches 7.74% under T2-II-3 wave. Similar to the shear force, the bending moment of the main girder has increased by 7.73%, while in the middle the moment reduces about 3.89%.

4.2.2 Effect of Hydrodynamic Force on the Main Tower

At the same time, the effect of hydrodynamic force on the seismic response of the main tower of the bridge is illustrated in the Figure 15. It can be found that the hydrodynamic force has a significant influence on the peak internal force of the main tower. Due to the hydrodynamic force, the maximum internal force of the main tower is generally reduced. In addition to the bottom increases by 0.17%, the axial force of the main tower in water is slightly lower than that without water. The shear force of the main tower has reduced significantly in position of the main girder and the bottom of tower. Under T1-II-1 wave, the shear force at the tower bottom in water decreases 11.03% than without water, which reduced 12.56% in the position of main girder. The effect of hydrodynamic force on the bending moment of the main tower is similar to the shear force, which reduces by 25.54% under T2-II-1 wave.

4.2.3 Effect of Hydrodynamic Force on the Adverse Pile

As an important component, the pile foundation will take part in the fluid-structure interaction directly. Here, taken the most adverse position of the pile cap as an example, the distribution of the R along the pile height is analyzed (as shown in Figure 16).

As shown in Figure 16, the hydrodynamic force has a significant influence on the internal force of the most adverse piles under the longitudinal earthquake wave. Due to the hydrodynamic force, the maximum axial force at the bottom of the pile is increased 18.50% under T2-II-3 wave and 13.85% under T1-II-1 wave. The maximum axial force at the bottom of the pile is increased 18.03% under T2-II-1 wave and 8.99% under T1-II-1 wave. The maximum bending moment at the bottom of the pile is increased 14.22% under T1-II-3 wave and 7.96% under T2-II-1 wave.

5 CONCLUSIONS

Based on the Morison potential fluid theory, a simplified calculation method of hydrodynamic force acting on the group piles under earthquake was proposed. Taken the foundation of the Nanjing Yangtze River bridge as the prototype, the simplified method was verified by experiment. At the same time, the effect of hydrodynamic force on the dynamic response of the bridge was investigated. The main conclusions are followed:

1. By comparing with the dynamic response of the pile foundation in shaking table tests, the proposed simplified hydrodynamic force calculation method was validated.

2. Due to the effect of hydrodynamic force, the natural vibration characteristics of the pile cap structure was changed. The natural vibration period of the structure surround with water was increased more 40% than without water.

3. As a flexible and light structure, the natural vibration period of the cable-stayed bridge in deep water is more sensitive to the hydrodynamic force under earthquake. Due to the hydrodynamic force, the first natural frequency of the bridge decreased by 8.24%, and the other frequencies also decreased. The influence of hydrodynamic force on the natural vibration characteristics of cable-stayed bridges should be considered in the seismic design.

4. Depend on the characteristic of the earthquake waves, the internal force of the bridge main girder was changed by hydrodynamic force. In addition, the displacement peak of the main girder in longitudinal direction was increased, and the occurrence time was lagged. Under the longitudinal earthquake waves, besides of the increased axial force at the bottom of the tower, the shear force and bending moment of the main tower decreased obviously, whereas the longitudinal displacement increased significantly. And the internal force of the most adverse piles under the tower increased significantly.

5. Under earthquakes, the hydrodynamic force has a great influence on the different component of the cable-stayed bridge depending on the types of the earthquake. So it is necessary to consider the hydrodynamic force in the seismic design of the cable-stayed bridge.

Acknowledgments

This work is financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 51408009, 51608010), China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (Grant No. 2012M530022) and Project of North China University of Technology (Grant No. XN018007) for this study.

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Received: March 27, 2017; Revised: September 10, 2017; Accepted: September 23, 2017

* Corresponding author: Yue Li, E-mail: liyue_26@163.com