EP1065317A1 - Kabelaufhängung für eine Hängebrücke - Google Patents

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EP1065317A1
EP1065317A1 EP00401874A EP00401874A EP1065317A1 EP 1065317 A1 EP1065317 A1 EP 1065317A1 EP 00401874 A EP00401874 A EP 00401874A EP 00401874 A EP00401874 A EP 00401874A EP 1065317 A1 EP1065317 A1 EP 1065317A1
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    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E04—BUILDING
    • E04C—STRUCTURAL ELEMENTS; BUILDING MATERIALS
    • E04C5/00—Reinforcing elements, e.g. for concrete; Auxiliary elements therefor
    • E04C5/08—Members specially adapted to be used in prestressed constructions
    • E04C5/12—Anchoring devices
    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E01—CONSTRUCTION OF ROADS, RAILWAYS, OR BRIDGES
    • E01D—CONSTRUCTION OF BRIDGES, ELEVATED ROADWAYS OR VIADUCTS; ASSEMBLY OF BRIDGES
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  • the present invention relates to a suspension cable for a suspension bridge, of the type comprising several multi-wire steel strands, which are anchored at their two ends ends at anchor points provided on the bridge infrastructure, at least one attachment device being provided at at least one end of the cable for the attachment of at least one group of strands of the cable to one of said anchoring points, said attachment device comprising a body capable of receiving a group of strands of the cable and retain them in a longitudinal direction of the cable, and capable of receive one end of at least one anchor bar and hold it in the direction opposite longitudinal of said cable.
  • the suspension cables known up to now are generally produced using either of two techniques.
  • a first known technique consists in use individual galvanized steel wires, which are arranged parallel to each other to others.
  • the suspension cables produced using this first technique have good mechanical properties (tensile strength 1770 Mpa and elasticity module E of 210 Gpa for 5 mm steel wires of diameter).
  • tensile strength 1770 Mpa and elasticity module E of 210 Gpa for 5 mm steel wires of diameter.
  • it is not uncommon use 7 to 8,000 or more steel wires for each suspension cable.
  • the operations for placing the steel wires are therefore very long and require a sophisticated and important material.
  • a second technique for constructing suspension cables consists in use at least one multi-wire and multi-layer strand for each cable, in general several multi-wire and multi-layer strands.
  • Each strand is usually composed at least 37 steel wires, and it is not uncommon for it to consist of a number still largest son, can reach or exceed one hundred son.
  • Such strands multi-wire and multi-layer are very heavy and their handling is difficult and complicated, further requiring heavy handling and lifting equipment power to allow their installation on the bridge infrastructure, in especially at the top of the pylons of it.
  • the suspension cables composed of multi-wire and multi-layer strands have less mechanical properties good and less homogeneous than suspension cables composed of wires individual parallel.
  • the suspension cables thus produced have a modulus of elasticity which is lower than that of the steel entering their constitution, and which also has a random value (this value can vary within a plus or minus 10% range on the same batch of cables).
  • This is how their modulus of elasticity E can be between 150 and 190 Gpa, and the resistance average at break is usually around 1650 Mpa.
  • the strands multi-wire and multi-layer are relatively expensive (15 to 16 F / kg).
  • the anchoring operations to be carried out at the ends of the known suspension are very long and penalize the execution time of the site.
  • the technique of anchoring the ends of a suspension cable consists generally to submit the end of the cable or of each of the strands which the make up, first of all, an operation called “crimping” or “wigging”. This operation consists of fraying the end of the cable or strand and giving the end of each wire forms a hook. It is easy to see that if the cable has a large number of multi-layer and multi-layer wires and / or strands, this crimping operation is very long to execute. Then after the end of the cable has been "crimped", it is subjected to an operation called "pelletizing".
  • This last operation consists of placing a steel base around the crimped end of the cable or of each of the strands, this base having the shape of a socket whose internal channel has a narrow part with a diameter corresponding to that of the cable or to that a multi-wire and multi-layer strand of the cable, and a flared part intended to receive the crimped end of said cable or said strand.
  • the base is then fixed at the end crimped by pouring into the flared part of the socket channel an appropriate agent sealing, such as molten metal, cement grout or resin (see document FR 812.895).
  • US Patent 3,864,776 describes a suspension bridge and it relates more particularly an anchoring device for a suspension cable of such a bridge.
  • the anchor is suitable for use with cable strands in parallel, strands of twisted cable or strands or parallel wires prefabricated, in other words with the different kinds of cables usually used to make suspension cables.
  • this document simply states that they are made up of several wires, without indicate the number.
  • the means used in the various embodiments of the anchoring device described in this document are relatively heavy, bulky and complex. It would be economically unrealistic to use them with strands of seven wires, which individually have a relatively force-transmitting capacity weak and not justifying the "heavy" means of anchoring described in this document.
  • the latter expressly indicates that the complexity of the dimension of elements is hard to imagine from the drawings.
  • the present invention therefore aims to provide a cable for suspending the type defined in the preamble, which is less expensive and easier to install than known suspension cables.
  • each strand of the cable is a prestressing strand comprising seven steel wires fitted with sacrificial anti-corrosion protection.
  • the suspension cable according to the invention T16-1770 MPa type prestressing strands with seven steel wires galvanized 5 mm in diameter. With such strands, there is resistance to rupture of 1770 Mpa and modulus of elasticity E of 195 Gpa, i.e. properties mechanical as good as a single wire suspension cable parallel.
  • the seven-wire prestressing strands can be manufactured with good reproducibility, that is to say that the strands of the same production batch have mechanical characteristics having substantially the same values. The designer of the bridge is therefore not obliged to adopt safety factors too important than in the case where multi-wire and multi-layer strands are used.
  • galvanized steel seven-wire strands have a price per kilo about 2.5 times lower than that of multi-wire and multi-layer strands.
  • the seven-wire prestressed strands of galvanized steel are significantly lighter than the commonly used multi-wire and multi-layer strands for making the suspension cables. As a result, their installation is significantly easier and faster and requires less lifting equipment complicated and less powerful than in the case of multi-wire and multi-layer strands.
  • Galvanized steel seven-wire prestressing strands are already known for at least ten years and widely used in the field of manufacture of prestressed concrete structures, including bridges.
  • the invention therefore also aims to provide means which are at the both compact and able to anchor a suspension cable according to the invention, composed of several prestressing strands with seven steel wires, at anchor points provided on the infrastructure of a suspension bridge.
  • the suspension bridge 1 shown in Figure 1 includes two pylons 2 and 3 carried respectively by batteries 4 and 5, and an apron 6 suspended by several lines 7 to two suspension cables 8 (only one of the two cables is visible in the figure 1). At their lower end, the lines 7 are attached to the apron 6, while at their upper end they are attached to collars 9 carried by each of the two suspension cables 8. Each cable 8 passes over chairs (not shown) at the top of pylons 2 and 3, and its ends are anchored to solid masses anchors 11 and 12 provided on the infrastructure of bridge 1.
  • each suspension cable 8 consists of several multi-wire strands 13 in steel.
  • each strand 13 is a strand of a type usually used in the prestressing field, with seven wires 14 (see figure 5) in steel with sacrificial anti-corrosion protection.
  • each strand 13 is a strand of the T16-1770 Mpa type with seven galvanized steel wires.
  • the number strands 13 used to form each suspension cable 8 can vary within a large measure. This number depends mainly on the length and weight of the deck 6 of deck 1. For a bridge of some importance, the number of strands 13 may be several hundred or more than a thousand.
  • each cable 8 comprises at least one hooking device 15 (figures 2, 3 and 4) allowing a group of strands 13 of the cable 8 to be attached to one or the other anchor blocks 11 and 12. Since in the majority of cases each suspension cable 8 will include a very large number of parallel strands 13, the strands of each cable 8 will therefore be divided into several groups and each group of strands will be associated with at least one attachment device 15, preferably two hanging devices, one at each end of the strand group.
  • each attachment device 15 which will be described in detail below, allows the strands 13 to be hooked from a group of strands to one 16b of the ends of an anchor bar 16, the other end 16a of which may be anchored to one or other of the two anchor blocks, for example the anchor block 12.
  • the anchor block 12 constituted for example by a structure in concrete, has several through holes 17 (one for each anchor bar 16).
  • Each hole 17 is slightly conical, the larger diameter end of hole 17 located on the side of the hanging device 15.
  • a metal support plate 18, for example of steel which has a hole 19 aligned with the hole 17 and a spherical bearing surface 21 around of the outlet orifice of the hole 19.
  • the anchor bar 16 is threaded into the holes aligned 17 and 19 and its end 16a which projects beyond the outlet of the hole 19 is threaded and carries a nut 22 with a spherical bearing surface, which bears on the spherical surface 21 of the support plate 18.
  • this can be covered with a cover 23 which is fixed by screws 24 to the support plate 18.
  • the cover 23 may advantageously include an injection orifice 25 through which a corrosion protection agent 26 such as, for example, wax, grease, pitch, cement grout or an appropriate resin can be injected into the cover 23 and also in the hole 17 through a channel 27 drilled obliquely in the support plate 18 and putting the inside of the cover 23 in communication with the hole 17.
  • a corrosion protection agent 26 such as, for example, wax, grease, pitch, cement grout or an appropriate resin
  • the injection orifice 25 can be closed by means of a plug 28 and the large diameter end of the hole 17 can be closed with a suitable seal 29.
  • support plate 18 can be common to several bars anchor 16. In this case, plate 18 will have a greater extent than that shown in Figure 2 and it will have several holes 19, one for each anchor bar 16 associated with it.
  • the device attachment 15 comprises a nut 31 capable of receiving and retaining the strands 13 of a group of strands of the suspension cable 8, and also of receiving and retaining the end 16b of the anchor bar 16.
  • the nut 31 is constituted by a body in steel, which for example has a generally cylindrical shape (Figure 5) with two faces end 31a and 31b parallel to each other and substantially flat and perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the strands 13.
  • In the peripheral surface 31e of the body of the nut 31 are formed several notches 32, for example new notches as shown in figure 5.
  • Each notch extends from one side end 31a to the other end face 31b of the nut 31 and receives one of the strands 13 of the group of strands mentioned above which, in this case, therefore comprises nine strands.
  • each stop 33 can be constituted by a steel sleeve which is fixed to the corresponding strand 13 by spinning or crimping, according to a technique well known in the field of prestressing.
  • each stop may be constituted by a 33 'steel bush ( Figure 6) which is fixed to the corresponding strand 13 by conical keys 34 according to a technique also well known in the field of prestressing.
  • each stop 33 (or 33 ') is supported on the end face 31b of the nut 31 by means of a pressure distribution ring 35 in steel.
  • a washer 36 made of a softer metal, for example aluminum, can be provided between each stop 33 and the corresponding ring 35, in order to compensate possible slight defects in parallelism between the mutual contact surfaces of the stop 33 of ring 35.
  • an obviously 37 can be advantageously formed in the end face 31b of the nut 31 at each place where a stop 33 (or the ring 35, if provided) bears on said end face 31b, as shown in Figures 3 and 5. Under these conditions, in service, when the stop 33 or, if present, the ring 35 is engaged in the recess 37, it cooperates with the side wall of this obviously to prevent the strand 13 corresponding to radially exit from the notch 32.
  • each notch 32 is preferably slightly in downward slope from the end face 31b to the end face 3a.
  • each notch 32 is slightly deeper on the side of the face end 31a only on the side of the end face 31b.
  • the bottom of each obviously 37 which serves as a bearing surface for the ring 35 or for the stop 33, has a slightly spherical surface, like the corresponding facing surface of the ring 35 or stop 33.
  • the anchor bar 16 and the nut 31 can be fixed to each other or retained with respect to each other at least in the direction tending to oppose the internal tension of the strands 13 of the suspension cable 8.
  • the nut 31 has in its middle a hole 38 internally threaded, into which can be engaged and screwed the end 16b of the anchor bar 16, which has a male thread, as shown in Figures 3 and 4.
  • a waterproof rigid envelope 39 in two parts 39a and 39b.
  • the part 39a of the envelope 39 is carried by the strands 13 of the group of strands and has for this purpose nine pipes or chimneys 41 (one for each strand 13) having an inside diameter corresponding to the outside diameter of each strand.
  • the part 39b of the envelope 39 is carried by the anchor bar 16 and comprises at this indeed an orifice 42 whose diameter corresponds to the outside diameter of the bar 16.
  • the two parts 39a and 39b of the casing 39 have respective flanges assembly, which can be fixed to each other by several bolt assemblies and nuts 43.
  • each of the two parts 39 a and 39b of the envelope 39 comprises a tubing 44a or 44b respectively, which can be closed by a plug 45a or 45b respectively.
  • One of the two pipes 44a and 44b serves as an injection orifice to inject into the empty spaces inside the envelope 39, after assembly of its two parts 39a and 39b, a corrosion protection agent 46, such as e.g. wax, grease, pitch, cement grout or resin appropriate.
  • the nut 31 could have a number of notches smaller or larger than new.
  • the bar 16 can retain the nut 31 by means of a retaining head carried by the end corresponding to the anchor bar 16 and bearing against the end face 3 the nut 31.
  • Said retaining head can be formed integrally with the anchor bar 16 or it can be formed by a nut screwed onto a formed thread on the end of said anchor bar.

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US3864776A (en) * 1973-11-15 1975-02-11 Parson Brinckerhoff Quade & Do Prestressed post tension suspension bridge cable anchorage
FR2346517A2 (fr) * 1976-03-31 1977-10-28 Stup Procedes Freyssinet Tirants libres formes d'armatures d'acier tendues
EP0323285A1 (de) * 1987-11-25 1989-07-05 Freyssinet International (Stup) Schrägseile und deren Verankerung

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DE1658586A1 (de) * 1967-08-22 1970-06-11 Dyckerhoff & Widmann Ag Verankerung von Tragseilen,die aus Staeben gebildet werden
US3864776A (en) * 1973-11-15 1975-02-11 Parson Brinckerhoff Quade & Do Prestressed post tension suspension bridge cable anchorage
FR2346517A2 (fr) * 1976-03-31 1977-10-28 Stup Procedes Freyssinet Tirants libres formes d'armatures d'acier tendues
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