Abstract:As the core load-bearing component of cable-stayed bridges, the vibration behavior of cables directly impacts the bridge safety during service. The excitation mechanisms, dynamic characteristics and potential hazards of major cable vibration modes are sorted out. The research progress and engineering applications of traditional passive vibration reduction technologies and new cable vibration reduction techniques are summarized. The advantages and limitations of each technology are analyzed. The research results show that the traditional passive technologies face the bottlenecks of vibration reduction efficiency and the poor applicability of active control engineering. The semi-active/intelligent control and the new passive technologies have achieved the performance breakthroughs. The composite vibration reduction through multi-means collaboration is an important direction to solve the multi-modal vibrations of the cables. The future research directions include the vibration reduction theories under complex operating conditions, the development of new dampers, and the optimization and engineering validation of multi-modal parameters, which provides a references for vibration reduction design of the cables of ultra-long-span cable-stayed bridges.