Abstract:Aiming at the cable force test of cable structure and based on the laboratory test, the computer vision method and the traditional acceleration sensor method are compared, and the applicability of computer vision method is discussed. It is studied the use of the servo static load anchor testing machine to tension a single steel stay-cable strand. The simulation of cable tensioning stress state is simplified. The dynamic response of cable is measured by the non-contact measuring method of camera photography. The dynamic deformation, base frequency and force of cable are identified by the sub-pixel template matching algorithm, and are compared with the test results of the traditional acceleration sensor. The study results show that the rumble spectrum peaks of cable identified by the computer vision method are obvious, and the identifying result of base frequency is basically same as the test result of acceleration sensor. The maximum error between the cable force identification result and the measured value is less than 6%, which has the ability to conduct the actual structural cable force test.