Following the six previous symposia held in Liège (1995), Tokyo (1997), Trondheim (1999), Montréal (2001), Santa Margherita Ligure (2003) and Charleston USA (2005), the Organizing Committee has decided to hold a seventh edition of this International Symposium on Cable Dynamics.
 

Scope of the Symposium

This series of symposia is dedicated to cable structures and to interchange of ideas between several engineering disciplines relative to power lines, guyed masts, cable-supported bridges, cable car structures, cables for marine applications, etc.

Scenarios to be considered for such structures are movements (from very small repetitive ones of a few centimetres to huge ones of about ten meters and above), wrap-up, rupture e.g. by material fatigue and unacceptable or catastrophic response due to natural forces (of which some fraction may be motion-dependent).

The potential problems with cable structures are not easily handled because the loading process within a span is most often only vaguely known through interpretation of displacement response and because the effect of end-point motions is far from easy to predict.

Means for amelioration of the rate and magnitude of vibration occurrences is a central topic at this Symposium. Measurement systems (including real time) are a key point.

Another important matter concerns surface treatment that are being researched actively, to affect drag and aerodynamic stability

Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) is of growing interest and new contributions would be welcomed, especially in regard with moving cables and wake effects. 

Industrial practice is particularly welcomed in our symposium.