Serviceability analysis of sea-crossing bridges under correlated wind and wave loads

Chen Fang, You-Lin Xu, Yongle Li and Jinrong Li

Reliability Engineering and System Safety, 2024, vol. 246, issue C

Abstract: With coupled wind and wave loads suffered by sea-crossing bridges, it is challenging to include uncertainties for assessing bridge serviceability. In this study, an efficient probabilistic peak response framework with surrogate models is developed for the serviceability analysis of sea-crossing bridges under coupled wind and wave loads. The joint probability distribution functions (JPDF) of the mean wind speed, significant wave height, and peak wave period are first derived based on long-term field measurement data and using a C-vine copula model. The JPDF serves as an input to the bridge to calculate the peak response of the bridge through finite-element analyses. To improve computational efficiency and make the problem manageable, the surrogate models are then generated by both the support vector machine and response surface method to predict the bridge peak responses. The exceeding probabilities for the serviceability assessment are finally obtained by the Monte-Carlo method using the pre-defined threshold values of bridge serviceability. A real long-span sea-crossing bridge is used as a case study to demonstrate the feasibility and effectiveness of the proposed framework. The results elucidate the effects of correlated wind and wave loads on bridge serviceability. Ignoring the correlation of wind and wave parameters will significantly overestimate the exceeding probability of bridge serviceability.

Keywords: Sea-crossing bridges; wind and wave loads; serviceability analysis; vine copula model; surrogate model; Monte-Carlo method (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ress.2024.110077

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