The flutter stability of the Maputo Bridge of Mozambique is investigated in this study.A comparison of the aeroelastic response of section model and full bridge aeroelastic model is presented.Type-1 Gumbel distribution is utilized in the fitting of field meteorological statistics to estimate the basic wind speed of bridge.Comprehensive analysis is made to account for the apparent difference in the flutter critical wind speed between section model test and full bridge aeroelastic model test.It is noted that the full bridge aeroelastic model test

succeeded in the proper simulation of real bridge dynamics

three-dimensional and multi-modal coupling effect

can take the spanwise correlation of aerodynamic force into account and give a more accurate result.In comparison

section model test will lead to a conservative result.