Regen‐Wind‐induzierte Schwingungen – ein State‐of‐the‐Art Report

Rain‐wind induced vibrations can occur, when rain and wind simultaneously act, for instance, on the cables of cable‐stayed bridges, on inclined steel hangers of arch bridges or on the backstays of guyed masts. As a result of wind and gravity, the rainwater forms small rivulets, which flow down on the surface of these structural members. The rivulets disturb the wind flow around the dry cross section and cause a modified unsymmetrical distribution of the surrounding wind pressure, which leads to periodic exciting forces. Due to the movement of the cable and the wind forces, the position of the rivulets varies on the cable surface. This constellation can lead to aeroelastic excitation with large amplitudes. Rain‐wind induced vibrations can reduce the life cycle of a structure seriously, because the initialising wind velocity of rain‐wind induced vibrations is significantly lower than the design wind velocity and thus has a high probability of occurrence. In this paper, the further researches and investigations up to now dealing with rain‐wind induced vibrations are summed and commented.     

Visko‐elastisches Verhalten von Holz‐Klebstoff‐Verbindungen unter zyklischer Zug‐Druck‐Belastung

Visco‐elastic behavior of bonded wood under cyclic tensile and compression loading In the present contribution, a test method is used to simulate the static, cyclic loading of adhesive joints due to swelling and shrinking of the wood and to demonstrate the plastic deformation in the low load range. For tensile shear specimens prepared from beech wood and bonded with three different adhesives (MUF, PRF, PUR), the elastic behavior under cyclic tensile and compression loading was investigated and the loss and storage of energy was determined. All tested adhesives showed viscose parts even at a very low load level of 3 MPa. At a load level of 7 MPa, the PRF joints revealed a more elastic behavior than the other. The increased loss energy determined for the PUR bonding indicates a softening of the adhesive joint.     

Materialgesetz‐Formulierung für Riss‐Kontaktelemente in FEM‐Berechnungen

Material Law Formulation for Crack Interface Elements in FEM‐Calculations FEM‐calculations of reinforced concrete structures with discrete cracks by use of interface elements under mixed‐mode loading have difficulties, because of no existing, in general approved material law formulation. Hence, a material law formulation is presented for the interface elements, which considers a coupling of the crack behaviour vertically to and in parallel with the crack and which bases on existing research results. At the example of pull out test of dowels, it is shown that very good results can be achieved with this suggestion.