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With the development of modern long-span cable-stayed bridges, due to the Parallel strand cable (PSC) being assembled on-site strand by strand, which has the advantages such as no need for large-scale equipment for cable-making, delivery, hoisting, traction, tensioning, and the corrosion protection of the cable is excellent, it is more and more favored by designers.As the load-bearing components, the stay cables are known as the life cable of the cable- stayed bridge. Its reliability and durability are the key factors that determine the safety and the service life of the cable-stayed bridge. In accordance with the requirements specified in international recommendations, in-depth research has been carried out on cable fatigue, anti- corrosion, vibration control to optimize OVM250 PSC system. All research results have been successfully applied to cable stayed bridge projects.

Cable tension identification based on mode shapes extracted from vibration measurements is a relatively new method. In this method, the cable is equivalent to a beam model hinged at its ends and under axial tension with an unknown length to eliminate the effects of boundary conditions. This study focuses on the influences of sensor arrangement in the measurements on the accuracy of the tension identification. For this purpose, full-scale cable experiments have been carried out, where a number of sensors were attached to the cable to record cable acceleration during artificial excitation. The eigenvalue realization algorithm (ERA) has then been applied to identify the mode shapes and frequencies of the cables from the multiple acceleration measurements. The effects of different sensor arrangement schemes and cable tension identification method based on higher- order modes are compared and discussed.