Summary
The post-critical aeroelastic behavior of horizontal, suspended, shallow cables is analyzed via a continuous model. Perturbation methods are directly applied to the Partial Differential Equations (PDE) of motion. They are obtained after the formulation of the aerodynamic model, which takes into account the change of the equilibrium configuration of the cable related to the mean wind forces. Bifurcation equations, ruling the galloping and post-galloping behavior, are evaluated and the relevant outcomes are compared with those obtained by numerical simulations.
