Unified modal analysis of complex cable systems via extended dynamic stiffness method and enhanced computation

Summary With the increase of the span and height of modern engineering structures, the design length and complexity of the cable structure are constantly increasing, whose dynamic problem has become the key to structural design, performance monitoring and maintenance, and vibration control. Therefore, it is necessary to study and develop a unified dynamic analysis theory for complex cable system to meet the requirements of calculation accuracy and efficiency. In view of this, a unified dynamic analysis method for dynamic analysis of complex cable system is proposed in this paper on the basis of the classical dynamic stiffness method. In this paper, the dynamic stiffness method has been enhanced in multiple aspects, which not only retains the advantages of high computational efficiency and wide application range but also overcomes its technical bottlenecks in analysis of shallow‐sag cable system considering the damping effect, composite cable systems, and multisegment cable systems. The proposed method can not only be used to the structural design of the complex cable system but also be extended to the vibration control of the system during the service period.