ABSTRACT
The Great Belt Link will provide the final land link for automotive and rail traffic from the island of Zealand to the European Continent. This link includes both a large suspension bridge across the East channel for vehicular traffic, a tunnel for rail traffic across the East channel and parallel bridges for vehicular and rail traffic across the West channel. Wind engineering studies were conducted for both the West bridges and the East suspension bridge. Section model studies were carried out for the West bridges, while section model, taut strip and a full bridge aeroelastic model studies were conducted for the East suspension bridge. This paper describes the test programme conducted and compares results of different model studies for the East suspension bridge. Areas of agreement and disagreement between the results are highlighted and areas for further comparison through calibration of analytical models are suggested.
