Bridge tower vast utilities

Abstract

The Bridge Tower Vast Utilities comprise: multilevel blocks of recreation and pleasant entertainment arenas by usage the unique qualities of bridges as attracting, uniting structures which people always like to visit and enjoy, high-efficient energy contributors, reliable technological protection from forced oscillations, caused with gusty winds, traffic vibroeffects, earthquakes, by self-dampening flexible anti-resonance structures of the combined bridge tower column and poly flexible foundation. The swimming pools, observation lots, orchards, children centers, aquarium, jet-yacht station, parking lots, ramps, elevators, infrastructures are combined with regular transportation and architectural means of civil bridges into an integrated system. This proposal provides much shorter and faster rate period of investment returns by effective and full serving for customers and owners with natural unique substance and attractive utilities of new and reconstructed civil bridges, which could be converted into well-desired and high-profit structures.

Description

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BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

This proposal relates to the objects, purposes, design arrangements, and general utilities of civil bridge towers, including also protection bridges and their towers from fored oscillations caused by traffic vibro-effects, strong gusty winds, seismic attacks.

Most of civil bridges are historical, architectural, technical and often even spiritual wonders.

Civil bridges are always extremely attractive and gorgeous to us because of their challenging, uniting, and cooperating substance and philosophy.

Despite bridges fascinate people they are designed, constructed and used mostly as transportation structures only. It is not enough, especially because of huge costs and difficulties of their design-development and construction, requirements of long-term returning investments which last decades.

There are many rivers, straights, big lakes with magnificent landmarks where people need new or reconstructed civil bridges to solve local problems.

The subject matter of the present proposal includes extra wide utilities developed for bridge towers in order to make them much more than transportation means only and consisting of:

• • technological function solutions with multilevel blocks of attractive arenas completely using the unique qualifies and rare particularities of bridge towers;
  • improved technical solutions in order to provide high reliability of towers by multiple self-damping flexible structures to resist any kind of forced exterior oscillations caused by strong winds, traffic vibroloads, earthquakes;
  • energy saving solutions for power and heat requirements of the bridge, and towers' extra businesses, and their infrastructures.

Many of the conventional solutions related to civil bridge towers are described in class 14; subclasses 18; 3; 8; 77.1; 74.5 of the USA patent classification.

Direct prior arts, which propose the full and integrated usage of bridge towers' attractive qualities for proper arenas forming in multilevel blocks whole kits of large and unique businesses in natural addition to towers' transportation and architectural regular facilities, were not found.

BRIEF SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

The objects, general solutions and substance of this proposal are:

• • providing extra effective utilities of civil bridge towers in addition to their regular transportation and architectural functions;
  • usage the rare attractive qualities of bridges based on their uniting philosophy and unique interactions with water landmarks for customers and owners by proposing multilevel blocks with people recreation and pleasant entertainment arenas, and businesses with high profit possibilities of various services on always beautiful bridges;
  • including among said multilevel blocks an upper block atop the tower, and a lower block in underwater zone of the tower, and a middle block with mostly technical services, parking zones, ramps, and auxiliary infrastructures;

providing technological protection of bridge towers from forced oscillations and mechanical vibrations caused by seismic attacks, strong gusty winds, and traffic effects by self-damping ability of decisive units, structures, flexible connections and joints;

• • proposing natural, ecologically pure, energy high-saving electric power sets, heating and propulsing structures based on self-accumulating solutions providing high efficiency for tower services.
  • converting new and reconstructed civil bridges into structures which were much more than transportation and architectural means only, in order to get shorter, faster, and much more effective investment return rate period;
  • to enjoy as many people as possible by eternal beauty of magnificent civil bridges with vast utilities of their newly-designed towers as combined multipurpose structures;
  • to provide various new jobs connected to bridge tower utilities.

DRAWING FIGURES

The drawings are schematic, scaleless and simplified for better clarity of solutions developed. In the drawings, closely related units and elements have the same numbers but different alphabetic suffixes.

Numbers of views and sections accord to the numbers of figures where they are shown.

FIG. 1 shows a front view of the bridge tower illustrating the preferred embodiment of tower structures in general design.

FIGS. 2, 3 illustrate cross-sectional views taken in FIG. 1 and showing preferred design of tower's column in FIG. 2, and structural order of towers foundation in FIG. 3.

FIG. 4 is a cross-sectional view taken in FIG. 3 and showing the general arrangement of the tower's foundation in flexible connection with tower's column.

FIG. 5 is a partial local sectional view taken in FIG. 1 and showing spring connections between any adjacent tower column trunks.

FIG. 6 is a partial cross-sectional view taken in FIG. 1 and showing preferred disposition of some tower structures in the middle of said column.

FIG. 7 shows a side view of a hydrodynamic closed-loop turboset-self booster as a preferred electric power source for all bridge and tower systems.

FIG. 8 shows a plan view of a dynamic natural heater as a preferred effective unit for various heating purposes of the tower's structures.

FIG. 9 illustrates graphic curves of functional dependencies of tower's oscillation amplitude ratios from frequency ratios, related to forced and tower's natural free vibrations and to self-dampening solutions of the present proposal in comparison with regular tower with the same dependencies. The preferred parameters of frequency ratios for detail design are shown.

FIG. 10 shows a side view of a ring jet propulsor as a preferred effective water jet propeller unit for all the motorboats of tower yacht-station.

Regular infrastructures, general protection and security utilities are not shown for better clarity

REFERENCE NUMERALS AND SYMBOLS IN DRAWINGS

Units of bridge tower:

• • 20—tower column; 20A—central column trunk A;
  • 20B, 20D, 20E—column trunks B, C, D, E respectively;
  • 20R—vertical recess; 20S—leaf spring;
  • 21—upper block; 21A—floor A; 21B—floor B;
  • 21C—upper swimming pool;
  • 22—middle block; 22A—level A; 21B—floor B;
  • 23—lower block; 23A—lower swimming pool;
  • 23B—aquarium; 23C—underwater-world stage;
  • 23D—jet yacht station; 23E—jet motorboat;
  • 23F—port-light; 23G—search light;
  • 24—civil bridge; 24A—suspense stringer;
  • 25—tower foundation; 25P—plate; 25R—gap room;
  • 25S—curved leaf spring; 26g—cable rope;
  • 26T—torsion bar; 27—elevator; 28—parking zone.

Tower utilities related to prior filed proposals:

• • 30—power unit, 31—closed-loop tunnel, 32—pump, 33—pump drive
  • 34—turbine, 35—electric generator, 36—meters, control
  • 40—natural heater, 41—air compressor, 42—fan, 43—inner tunnel
  • 44—heat exchanger, 45—manifold exchanger, 46—damper, 47—casing
  • 50—ring jet propulsor, 51—tunnel, 52—pump, 53—intake unit,
  • 54—discharge unit, 55—bypass, 56—reverse trust unit,
  • 57—pump drive

Symbols, marks, signs: plane surfaces

• • up ramp car,
  • down ramp elevator
  • parking stall water, liquid
  • intake discharge (a-air; w-water)
  • amplitude ratio, averaged reducing factor;
  • frequency ratio; magnification factor;
  • functional dependence;
    • regular undamped amplitude and frequency ratios
    • self-damped propositional amplitude and frequency ratios
    • preferred regime of for

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

The preferred general embodiments of the Bridge Tower Vast Utilities include:

a) Multilevel blocks with tower-proper and bridge-unique arenas in addition to regular transportation and architectural utilities, and technological providers;

b) Bridge tower joint column vibroreliability means;

c) Poly-flexible tower foundation vibro-stability units;

d) Effective energy contributions of structures of prior patent applications filed already from present author.

a) FIGS. 1, 2, and 6 show said arenas, which comprise:

• • upper block 21 including floors 21A, 21B with sight seeing rooms, orchards, children centers, swimming pool 21C, chess and musical halls; regular infrastructures, protection, and security rooms and units;
  • middle block 22 with levels 22A, 22B and regular services of maintenance and infrastructures, including up and down ramps, parking stalls, elevators 27;
  • lower block 23 with lower swimming pool 23A, aquarium 23B, underwater world stage 23C with port-lights 23F, searchlights 23G, jet yacht-station 23D, with rental motorboats 23E.

b) FIGS. 1, 2, 3, 5, 6 illustrate the preferred embodiment of said tower column 20 including vertical column trunks 20A, 20B, 20C, 20D, 20E joined with loaf springs 20S located in recesses 20R along trunks and forming a united flexible joint structure. FIGS. 2, 6 illustrate mostly hole trunks with cross stiff ribs for ramps and parking lots. The cross dimensions, mutual orientation, masses and stiffnesses of said column trunks are different each from other adjacent, thus providing different natural frequencies of free vibrations of each trunk

$f_{\mathrm{tr}}=\frac{1}{2\pi }\sqrt{\frac{\mathrm{trunk}\mathrm{stiffness}}{\mathrm{trunk}\mathrm{weight}}},$

so the anti-resonance and self-damping inequality is provided

The flexible design of the bridge tower includes the joint column 20 with its trunks A, B, C, D, E each having different from adjacent trunk, and thus damping each other with springs 20S, steel cable ropes 26C, torsion bars 26T. The natural frequency of free vibrations of the joint tower is equal about from 4.0 to 6.0 times of usually well-known local expected frequencies of forced oscillations. So the ratio of said frequencies is preferred to be

$r_{s.d.f.}\ge \frac{f_{\mathrm{twr}}}{f_{F.O.}}\ge 5.0\pm 20\%.$

FIG. 9 is a graph-referenced illustrating functional dependencies F and reducing of averaged displacement-acceleration amplitude ratio from frequency ratio. The dashed upper curve relates to the conventional undamped bridge tower. The solid lower curve relates to the bridge tower with a self-dampening joint column of the present proposal.

$\mathrm{So},r_a=r_{s.d.a}=\frac{{}_{R.a.}}{{}_{S.d.}}\cong 5\pm 20\%.$

The preferred regime of self-dampening frequency ratio providing reducing of amplitude ratio up to 5 times (about 0.2) is shown.

c) FIGS. 3, 4 illustrate the preferred design of the column foundation 25 with two plates 25P and two kits of curved leaf springs 25S placed in both perimeter gap-rooms 25R: between joint column 20 and upper plate 25P; and between upper and lower plates 25P. Said springs 25S and gap-rooms 25R provide effective dampening of any forced oscillations by allowing micro displacements of both plates 25P at their plane surfaces and during vibrations coming either from earthquakes or from sum-traffic-gusty-strong wind loads, or together.

This way the bridge tower 20 receives the effective part of its vibroprotection from foundation 25 in safe and stable for the bridge conditions.

d) FIG. 7 shows a preferred source of electric power for all tower systems' requirements, an effective hydrodynamic closed-loop turboset-selfbooster 30 according to patent application Ser. No. 11/399,611 filed Apr. 7 2006. The closed-loop tunnel 31, pump 32, pump drive 33, turbine 34, electric generators 35, meters and control 36 are shown.

FIG. 8 shows a preferred effective natural heater 40 by patent application Ser. No. 11/373,678 filed Mar. 13 2006.

The air compressor 41, fans 42, inner tunnel 43, heat exchangers 44, manifold-heat exchanger 45, dampers 46 for air intakes and hot air discharge (a) are shown in insulated casing 47.

FIG. 10 shows a preferred Ring jet propulsor 50 by patent application Ser. No. 11/581,271 filed Oct. 16 2006, as an effective water-jet propeller for jet motorboats 23E of the tower yacht-station 23D.

The tunnel 51, pump 52 with drive 57, intake unit 53, discharge unit 54, bypasses 55, reverse trust unit 56, ambient water intake and discharges (w) are shown.

A short resumé:

The Bridge Tower vast utilities comprising:

a) multilevel blocks with unique arenas, and

b) whole tower system combined vibro reliability means, and

c) a tower foundation vibrostability structure, and

d) effective energy contributors.

All said utilities provide substantial widening of bridges' services, conversion civil bridges into high efficient attractive integrated structures with shorter and faster investment return rate period, various new jobs, correct and full usage of splendid qualities of new or reconstructed civil bridges.

Claims

1. Bridge tower vast utilities comprising multilevel blocks each including attractive tower-proper and bridge-unique arenas in wide additions to bridges regular transportation and architectural functions.

2. The utilities of claim 1 wherein said blocks can include:

rings for around area and underwater observation,

upper and underwater swimming pools,

aquarium and underwater-world stage,

orchards and children centers,

chess and music halls,

jet yacht-station with motorboats,

elevators, parking stalls, up and down ramp-driveways

service and maintenance systems, general infrastructures.

3. The utilities of claim 1 wherein said blocks, each including several floors-levels, are located atop, and in the middle, and in water zone of the bridge tower.

4. The floor-levels of claim 3 can be either static and slow rotating by detail design.

5. The utilities of claim 1 wherein said multilevel blocks of the bridge tower can preferably include:

hydrodynamic closed loop turbosets-self-boosters by patent application Ser. No. 11/399,611 filed Apr. 07 2006 as efficient sources of electric power;

dynamic natural heaters by patent application Ser. No. 11/373,678 filed Mar. 13 2006, as efficient poly purpose heating devices;

ring jet propulsors by patent application Ser. No. 11/581,271 filed Oct. 16 2006, as effective water jet propelling units for motorboats of the tower yacht-station.

6. The bridge tower vast utilities including means of anti-resonance combined defense and stability with various self-dampening during any possible forced oscillations caused by gusty winds, traffic vibroloads and local earthquakes, and comprising:

an assembly of vertical trunks forming a joint tower column, and

polyflexible foundation structure, and

kits of cross diagonal, preferably steel, guy cable ropes connected to torsion bars.

7. The utilities of claim 6 wherein said assembly comprises trunks with different mutual orientation, cross-section dimensions, and masses, thus providing substantially different natural frequencies of own free vibrations for any adjacent trunk in joint tower column.

8. The trunks of claim 7 are vertically hole, with cross ribs and include spaces for ramps, elevators, parking stalls, and infrastructure facilities by detail design.

9. The trunks of claim 7 include multiple loaf-curved springs located in recess-pockets at various heights of the trunks to provide flexible and self-dampening connections among any adjacent trunks into joint column.

10. The utilities of claim 6 wherein said polyflexible foundation structure comprises:

at least two plates with plane surfaces and gap rooms for flexible connections of upper plate: with tower joint column; and with lower plate.

11. The polyflexible foundation of claim 10 includes curved leaf springs placed around said plates in gap rooms between:

upper plate and joint column structure, and

upper and lower plates.

12. The utilities of claim 6 wherein said kits of cables ropes and torsion bars are connected to trunks of joint column structure and multilevel blocks of claim 1 thus providing combined self-dampening to the forced oscillations by effective mutual superposition of natural own free frequency oscillations and any exterior vibrations, working together with other said integrated flexible means of the column and foundation.