Abstract:
To achieve a consistent and controllable level of structural failure risk during their service life, the concept of wind resistance should transition from the "uniform-hazard" principle with the same probability of hazard exceedance to the "uniform-risk" principle with the same structure failure level. This study introduces a "uniform-risk" analysis method into bridge wind engineering. Based on the failure integral method, the Shishou Yangtze River Bridge as well as the Tian’e Longtan Bridge located in the non-typhoon load control area, and the Xihoumen Bridge as well as the Lingdingyang Bridge located in the typhoon load control area, are taken as case studies. The risk-targeted flutter design wind speed
UR at the deck height is calculated. Additionally, the risk-targeted flutter checking coefficient
γR is defined as the ratio of the risk-targeted flutter design wind speed to the design wind speed at deck height, which gives the meaning of pre-determined failure risk for risk-targeted flutter checking wind speed. Furthermore, a sensitivity analysis of acceptable annual probability,
ν1, and of vulnerability parameter,
βR, on
UR and
γR is conducted. The increase of
βR and decrease of
γR will cause increase in
UR and
γR. The findings highlight the criticality of selecting a suitable combination value for
βR and
ν1, and a combined value of
βR at 0.08 m/s and
ν1 at 7×10
−7 for the flutter problem of long-span bridges is deemed as a reasonable combination.