Analysis of the Displacements of the Pierre
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Analysis of the Displacements of the Pierre
ANALYSIS OF THE DISPLACEMENTS OF THE PIERRE-LAPORTE SUSPENSION BRIDGE AS MEASURED BY PRECISE GPS SURVEYS ROCK SANTERRE, LUC LAMOUREUX AND STÉPHANIE MICHAUD DÉPARTEMENT DES SCIENCES GÉOMATIQUES UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL QUÉBEC, CANADA ABSTRACT Algorithms for On-The-Fly ambiguity resolution have been modified for the deformation monitoring of a suspension bridge. Instantaneous relative positioning of a deformation network at a precision of about 5 mm horizontally and 10 mm vertically has been achieved using GPS L1 phase observations. Particular attention has been paid to the modelling of relative tropospheric delay and to the phase centre calibration between antennae of different makes. Moving averages on station coordinates have also been applied to reduce multipath effects. The Pierre-Laporte bridge is a 6 lane, 1040 m length suspension bridge which crosses the St. Lawrence river in Québec City. Three 48 hour GPS sessions have been conducted during the months of July and October 1996 and during February 1997. For each session, 5 GPS receivers were observing at a data rate of 2 seconds. Daily variation in the vertical position of the antenna located in the middle of the deck shows clear correlation with respect to temperature and vehicle loading. Transverse movement of the deck has been monitored and correlated with (transverse) wind speed. Seasonal variation in temperature caused a vertical displacement of the middle of the deck, a contraction of the towers as well as a displacement of the towers towards the river banks. Santerre, Lamoureux, Michaud, Département des sciences géomatiques RÉSUMÉ Des algorithmes “On-The-Fly” pour la résolution des ambiguïtés de phase GPS ont été modifiés pour la mesure des déformations d’un pont suspendu. Le positionnement relatif instantané d’un réseau de déformation à une précision de 5 mm horizontalement et de 10 mm verticalement a été atteint en utilisant les mesures de phase GPS L1. Une attention particulière a été portée à la modélisation du délai troposphérique relatif et au calibrage des centres de phase entre antennes de différents manufacturiers. Des moyennes mobiles au niveau des coordonnées des stations GPS ont été calculées dans le but de réduire l’effet des multitrajets. Le pont Pierre-Laporte est un pont suspendu d’une longueur totale de 1040 m et compte 6 voies de circulation. Il traverse le fleuve St-Laurent en amont de la ville de Québec. Trois sessions d’observations de 48 heures chacune ont été menées durant les mois de juillet et octobre 1996 et février 1997. Lors de ces 3 sessions, 5 récepteurs étaient en opération avec un taux d’enregistrement de 2 secondes. La variation journalière de la position verticale de l’antenne située au milieu du tablier montre une forte corrélation avec la variation de température et le flot de circulation automobile. Le mouvement transversal du tablier a été mesuré et corrélé avec la vitesse (transversale) du vent. La variation saisonnière de la température a causé un déplacement vertical du milieu du tablier, une contraction des tours et un déplacement des tours vers les rives. Santerre, Lamoureux, Michaud, Département des sciences géomatiques OUTLINE OF THE PRESENTATION Objectives of the research Modified OTF algorithms GPS error sources and modelling Deformation monitoring network Bridge deck movements, as functions of: 1 - temperature - wind speed - traffic flow Distance between the 2 towers (comparison with EDM) Seasonal displacements (towers and deck) - thermal dilatation of the 2 towers - sag effect at the middle of the deck Conclusions and further research Santerre, Lamoureux, Michaud, Département des sciences géomatiques 2 OBJECTIVES OF THE RESEARCH To adapt GPS-OTF (On-The-Fly) algorithms for deformation monitoring of “kinematic” engineering structures such as a suspension bridge To develop software for the post-processing of GPS L1 phase observations with the modified OTF algorithms To deal with the most important errors, namely: relative tropospheric delay, antenna phase center variation and multipath To apply the methodology in real cases on the Pierre-Laporte suspension bridge and at different seasons To correlate the bridge displacements with temperature variation (thermal dilatation of the bridge structure), wind speed and traffic flow To compare GPS results with EDM measurements Santerre, Lamoureux, Michaud, Département des sciences géomatiques MODIFIED OTF ALGORITHMS (1/2) 3 Y Start A: A priori coordinates B: A priori ambiguity Test 1: on ambiguity search range Next satellite ? N Test 5: on cycle slips C: L.S.A. for each ambiguity set Y End N Next epoch ? Y Next ambiguity set ? Test 4: on ratio of variance factors Test 2: on L.S.A. correction terms Y N N E: Keep and display the L.S.A. solution N Test 3: on individual residuals Y D: Store L.S.A. solution(s) Santerre, Lamoureux, Michaud, Département des sciences géomatiques MODIFIED OTF ALGORITHMS (2/2) 4 B: L 1 d tro p N L1 A: Initialisation from static processing of the first 30 minutes of data; and for the other epochs, coordinates from the previous epoch 1: Check if the decimal part of eqn. (B) 2: |Coordinate corrections| < 10 cm ? 3: |Residuals| < 10 cm ? C: X ( A T A ) 1 A T W V A X W = ( A T A ) 2 X departs by more than 0.25 cycle from the closest interger value D: 1 Store all solutions which pass tests 2 and 3 o 4: Ratio of the second smallest and the smallest variance factors > 2 ? E: If one L.S.A. solution passes test 4 5: If phase variation between 2 epochs ~ prediction from Doppler frequency L.S.A.: Least Squares Adjustment Santerre, Lamoureux, Michaud, Département des sciences géomatiques 5 GPS ERROR SOURCES AND MODELLING Type of error Solution Troposphere Meteorological values extrapolated in height from values recorded at the reference station (Rothacher et al., 1986) => Inputs for Hopfield model Multipath Antenna siting and moving average on adjusted coordinates Phase center variation Relative calibration between antennae on a known and short baseline (calibration beam) Ionosphere, Orbit and S/A Errors assumed negligible for short baselines (D < 1 km) Santerre, Lamoureux, Michaud, Département des sciences géomatiques 6 DEFORMATION MONITORING NETWORK a RIN1 e d a b f UL2005 d e f D (km) 0.3 0.7 1.0 0.1 3.5 3.5 h (m) RIN2 c 59 -4 59 -2 17 19 b TON c N TACE TOS 100 m GPS Station Identification UL2005: Laval University Campus RIN1 : Primary Reference Station RIN2 : Secondary Reference Station TON : North Tower (Tour nord) TOS : South Tower (Tour sud) TACE : Deck Center (Centre du tablier) Santerre, Lamoureux, Michaud, Département des sciences géomatiques PIERRE-LAPORTE SUSPENSION BRIDGE: CHARACTERISTICS AND LOCATION OF GPS STATIONS TOS TON RIN1 70 m 110 m TACE 670 m 1040 m TON TON TOS Anemometer TOS TACE T A C E TOS TACE Santerre, Lamoureux, Michaud, Département des sciences géomatiques 7 Vertical displacement as a function of Temperature Station TACE (07/96) 8 Eastern Daylight Time 22:00 4:00 10:00 16:00 22:00 4:00 30 Vertical displacement (m) 25 0.25 20 Temperature (oC) 16:00 0.5 15 0 -0.25 -0.5 0 6 12 18 24 30 36 42 48 Elapsed Time (hours) Santerre, Lamoureux, Michaud, Département des sciences géomatiques Vertical displacement due to a car accident Station TACE (07/96) 9 Eastern Daylight Time Vertical displacement (m) 0.5 13:15 13:30 13:45 14:15 14:00 0.25 30 min. 0 40 cm -0.25 -0.5 3:00 3:15 3:30 3:45 4:00 4:15 4:30 Elapsed Time (hours) Santerre, Lamoureux, Michaud, Département des sciences géomatiques Transverse displacement as a function of wind speed Station TACE (10/96) Eastern Daylight Time 17:00 0.2 23:00 5:00 11:00 17:00 23:00 5:00 25 East Transverse displacement (m) 50 0.1 0 -25 0 Transverse wind speed (km/h) 10 -0.1 West -0.2 0 6 12 18 24 30 36 42 48 Elapsed Time (hours) Santerre, Lamoureux, Michaud, Département des sciences géomatiques Vertical displacement and Traffic flow (1/2) Station TACE (02/97) Eastern Daylight Time 0.5 1:00 7:00 13:00 19:00 1:00 7:00 13:00 3000 2500 2000 Vertical displacement (m) 1500 0.25 1000 500 0 0 Number of vehicles /15 min. 11 -0.25 -0.5 0 6 12 18 24 30 36 42 48 Elapsed Time (hours) Santerre, Lamoureux, Michaud, Département des sciences géomatiques Vertical displacement (m) Vertical displacement and Traffic flow (2/2) Station TACE (02/97) 0.1 High traffic flow: 3514 vehicles Low traffic flow: 257 vehicles 0 -0.1 -0.2 3:30 3:40 4:00 8:00 3:50 8:10 8:30 8:20 Eastern Daylight Time Eastern Daylight Time Amplitude (m) 12 0.015 FFT FFT 0.010 0.005 0 0 3 6 12 9 Period (minutes) 15 0 3 6 9 12 15 Period (minutes) Santerre, Lamoureux, Michaud, Département des sciences géomatiques 13 DISTANCE BETWEEN THE TWO TOWERS Distance pillar to pillar DI2000 : 663.548 m ±3 mm at a temperature of -4.5oC Comparison with GPS (for a mean temperature of -4oC) 663.57 1:00 7:00 13:00 19:00 1:00 7:00 13:00 (EDT) DI2000 : 663.548 m 663.55 663.53 663.51 0 -5 T(DI2000) : -4.5oC 0 6 12 18 24 30 Elapsed Time (hours) 36 42 -10 48 Temperature (oC) Distance (m) mean: 663.542 m ±10 mm Santerre, Lamoureux, Michaud, Département des sciences géomatiques 14 DEFORMATION OF THE PIERRE-LAPORTE BRIDGE (BETWEEN SUMMER AND WINTER SEASONS) TOS 3.8 3.8 45.5 West 4.5 TON TACE 4.0 3.4 East displacements in cm mean temperature variation: -25oC mean difference of transverse wind speed: 21 km/h Santerre, Lamoureux, Michaud, Département des sciences géomatiques 15 THERMAL DILATATION OF THE TOWERS TON TOS 110 m 3.8 cm Vertical displacement between summer and winter seasons TOS using the Differential Essen&Froome tropo. model (Rothacher at al., 1986) TON: 3.4 cm TOS: 3.8 cm for a temperature variation of 25.3oC Height of the towers : 110 m Dilatation coeff. (TON): 0.034 m / 110 m / 25.3oC = 12.2 ppm / oC Dilatation coeff. (TOS): 0.038 m / 110 m / 25.3oC = 13.7 ppm / oC Thermal dilatation coefficient of steel: 11.7 ppm / oC vertical displacement of 3.3 cm Santerre, Lamoureux, Michaud, Département des sciences géomatiques SAG EFFECT AT THE MIDDLE OF THE DECK 16 TOS TON 67 m 110 m TACE 664 m Vertical variation of station TACE (between summer and winter seasons) 1) With the average coordinates of stations TON, TOS and TACE, for the summer session, obtain the constants of the sag equation. cable length between the 2 towers (L): 681.38 m. 2) Calculate the theoretical cable length, for the winter session, with the thermal dilatation coefficient of steel (11.7 ppm/ oC) for a change of temperature of -25oC. L: 681.18 m. 3) With this theoretical cable length, the coordinates of stations TON and TOS (for the winter session) and the sag equation, calculate the vertical displacement of the middle of the deck: 51 cm. 4) The vertical displacement of station TACE (from GPS) is 46 cm. Santerre, Lamoureux, Michaud, Département des sciences géomatiques CONCLUSIONS 17 A methodology, algorithms and software have been developed for bridge deformation monitoring The precision of instantaneous relative positioning is about ±5 mm horizontally and ±10 mm vertically (PDOP < 6) The analysis of the displacements shows: i) a transverse movement of the deck center due to transverse wind speed of about: 2 mm / 1 km/h ii) a vertical displacement of the deck center with respect to temperature variation of about: -2 cm / 1OC (explainable with sag theory and thermal dilatation of the cables) iii) a vertical variation of the deck correlated with traffic flow iv) an elongation of the tower with respect to temperature variation of about 1.5 mm / 1OC (compatible with the thermal dilatation coefficient of the towers) v) a displacement of the towers towards the river banks of about 1.5 mm/1OC vi) an agreement of a few mm in the comparison of distance between the 2 towers from GPS and EDM measurements Santerre, Lamoureux, Michaud, Département des sciences géomatiques 18 FURTHER RESEARCH Detailed study of the high frequency movements of the bridge (sessions with a higher GPS data rate) Addition of more GPS receivers with chokering antennae Real-time implementation of deformation monitoring Application to other engineering structures: towers, skyscrapers, dams, etc. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Ministère des Transports du Québec Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Fonds d’enseignement et de recherche - Laval University, Faculty of Forestry and Geomatics Santerre, Lamoureux, Michaud, Département des sciences géomatiques