Field observation on aerodynamic response of Meiko West Bridge

Aerodynamic interference and vortex-induced vibrations on parallel bridges: The Ewijk bridge during different stages of refurbishment

“…Several researches have been conducted in the last few years on this topic, since the need for increasing the traffic capacity of existing motorways is becoming quite common, and often the solution consists in doubling an existing bridge crossing, or directly building a twin deck bridge. Some examples of relevant parallel bridges whose aerodynamics has been investigated are the Jindo bridge in Korea (Seo et al, 2013;Kim et al, 2013); the Meiko-Nishi, the Onomichi, and the Kansai Airport bridges in Japan (Suzuki et al, 1999;Okubo and Enami, 1972;Honda et al, 1990); the Haihe, the Pingsheng and the Hongdao bridges in China (Meng et al, 2011;Liu et al, 2009); the Fred Hartman and the New Tacoma bridges in the USA (Svensson and Lovett, 1990;Irwin et al, 2005); and the J.P. Duarte bridge in St. Domingo (Larsen et al, 2000). An overall picture of some of these bridges is shown in Fig.…”