Verification of a Cable Element for Cable Parametric Vibration of One-Cable-Beam System Subject to Harmonic Excitation and Random Excitation

Nonlinear vibration of cables in cable-stayed bridges is usually studied by either a divide-and-conquer approach in which interaction between local motion of the cables and global motion of the bridge is not considered, or a coupled cable-beam system which can only represent a simple structure with few degrees of freedom. A cable finite element is presented in this paper which can account for in-plane and out-of-plane motions of the cable. A...