Abstract
Slender footbridges are often highly susceptible to human-induced vibrations, due to their low stiffness, damping and modal mass. Predicting the dynamic response of these civil engineering structures under crowd-induced loading has therefore become an important aspect of the structural design. The excitation of groups of pedestrians and crowds is generally modelled using moving loads but also the changes in dynamic characteristics due to human-structure interaction are found to significantly affect the footbridge response. The present contribution investigates the influence of the presence of the pedestrians onto the dynamic characteristics of the occupied structure by means of an extensive experimental study on a footbridge in laboratory conditions. The analysis shows that the natural frequencies slightly reduce due to the additional mass but more significant is the observed increase in structural damping. Similar observations are made on a in situ footbridge. This interaction is simulated using a coupled human-structure model in which the human occupants are represented by simple biomechanical models.
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This research is funded by the Agency for Innovation by Science and Technology in Flanders (IWT). Their financial support is gratefully acknowledged.
The laboratory bridge at Warwick was built with the support of the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (project no. EP/I03839X/1: Pedestrian Interaction with Lively Low-Frequency Structures).
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Van Nimmen, K., Maes, K., Živanović, S., Lombaert, G., De Roeck, G., Van den Broeck, P. (2015). Identification and Modelling of Vertical Human-Structure Interaction. In: Caicedo, J., Pakzad, S. (eds) Dynamics of Civil Structures, Volume 2. Conference Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Mechanics Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-15248-6_34
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