Seismic performance of a wind designed control strategy on a suspension bridge

In this paper the model of an existing suspension bridge with steel deck is developed at the numerical level, from original data, in the ANSYS finite element code. The model is used to assess the efficiency, when the suspension bridge is excited by natural accelerograms, of control strategies specifically designed for wind loading. The control strategies implement passive and semi-active control dissipative devices, herein simulated by a widely adopted numerical model. The semi-active schemes employ a complete decentralization