Research Article

Comfort Evaluation of Double-Sided Catwalk for Suspension Bridge due to Wind-Induced Vibration

Table 2

Parameters for simulating the wind field.

Number of simulated nodes100

V1015 m/s

Separation of frequency1024

Upper limit of frequency2 Hz

Lower limit of frequency0.1 Hz

Longitudinal wind spectraSimiu spectra

Vertical wind spectraLumley–Panofsky spectra

Ground roughness length z00.03 m

Decaying factor Cz10

Decaying factor Cy16

Decaying factor Cw8

Time interval0.25 s

Note: V10 = 15 m/s is considered as the maximum wind speed for construction according to engineering practice.