[en] Dry galloping of stays in cable-stayed bridges is a phenomenon that is still of interest to the scientific community. Over the course of the current three-year research project numerous experiments will be carried out to investigate the effect of turbulence and inclination angle on dry galloping. The novel aspect of this study consists of an in-depth investigation into the effect of non uniformity of the pipe surrounding the stay cables on the dry galloping excitation mechanism. Previous studies reported that dry galloping is caused by the appearance of a negative pressure bubble on one side of the circular cylinder at the critical Reynolds number range, leading to a rapid drop in the drag coefficient and the appearance of a non negligible lift force. This paper presents results from initial experiments in the wind tunnel at CSTB – Nantes, France.
