Abstract:To study the influence of corridor frame on the vortex-induced vibration performance of bridge, by taking a footbridge with corridor frame as the engineering example, the rigid segment model with three different corridor frame size was made, and the wind tunnel test of corresponding segment model was carried out to analyze the influence of corridor frame on the vortex-induced vibration performance of girder. In order to consider the effect of space frame size variation on the aerodynamic characteristics of the whole bridge, the displacement response of girder at the span and 1/4 span in the uniform and turbulent flow field was analyzed through the wind tunnel test for the aeroelastic model of whole bridge. It revealed that: Corridor frame significantly changes the vortex-induced vibration performance of the bridge, and there is a large amplitude of vortex-induced vibration in the non-corridor frame state. Vortex-induced vibration performance of the small corridor frame and middle corridor frame is worse than that of non-corridor frame, while vortex-induced vibration performance of large corridor frame is better than that of non-corridor frame. Compared with the three different states, the vortex-induced vibration performance improves with the increase of corridor frame size, and except for the small-amplitude vortex-induced vibration in some operating conditions, there is no vortex-induced vibration in other operating conditions for the state of large corridor frame. If the upwind side of beam is different, the vortex-induced vibration response can be different. The maximum amplitude of the non-corridor frame, small corridor frame and middle corridor frame at the wide windward side is reduced by 49.72%, 27.57%, and 23.21%, compared with those at the narrow windward side, respectively. Combined with the fact that there is no vortex-induced vibration under the uniform and turbulent flow field in the aeroelastic test of the whole bridge, the space corridor frame overall improves the vortex-induced vibration performance of the bridge.