Footbridge Vibration Design

by Caetano; Elsa

• ISBN13: 9780415498661
• ISBN10: 041549866X
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781040178546
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-05-28
• Publisher: CRC Press

Summary

Increases in lightness and slenderness of footbridges have brought new design requirements. Despite the small loads associated with pedestrian action, two landmark projects, the Millennium Bridge in London, and the Solferino Bridge in Paris, have shown the importance of human-induced vibrations and dynamic effects in long span footbridges and given rise to new methodologies for their assessment and control. This has sparked intensive research, and the development of new numerical and experimental tools for assessing and controlling pedestrian effects, and new design guidelines and recommendations. This collection of eleven contributions is for civil and mechanical engineers working on footbridges or related infrastructural projects.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Recommendations, guidelines and codes?

European design guide for footbridge vibratio?

Calibration of the UK National Anne?

The influence of dynamics in footbridge design North American practic?

Application of French guidelines in design

Numerical and experimental and design tools?

Footbridges, numerical approac?

Design for dynamic effects in long span footbridge?

The role of dynamic testing in the design, construction and long-term monitoring of lively footbridges

Practical experience?

The Simone de Beauvoir Footbridge in Paris. Experimental verification of the dynamic behaviour under pedestrian loads and discussion of corrective modification?

Crowd dynamic loading on footbridges?

Application of tuned mass dampers for bridge deck?

Experience and practical considerations in the design of viscous damper

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