HYSTERESIS IN BRIDGE STRAND.

Keywords: IMPERIAL COLLEGE, BRIDGES, STRANDS, HYSTERESIS, RESPONSES, PRELOADED, SPIRAL, AXIAL, LOADS, DAMPING, STIFFNESS, EXPERIMENTS, THEORY, MECHANISMS, WIRE, LAYERS, CONTACT, PATCH, BEHAVIOUR, CALCULATIONS, FORCES, MOVEMENT, INTERWIRE, METHODS, STRESS, PREDICTION, TECHNIQUES, FRICTION, COEFFICIENTS, MEASUREMENT, FIXED, ENDS, ROTATION, MODELLING, PERTURBATION, CABLES, CYLINDRICAL, SHEET, ORTHOTROPIC, NON LINEAR, ELASTIC, PROPERTIES