Traffic & Transportation Engineering

Coupling Vibration Investigation and Parameter Analysis of Crowd- Bridge System

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  • School of Civil Engineering and Transportation,South China University of Technology,Guangzhou 510640,Guangdong,China
陈舟(1986-),男,博士生,主要从事桥梁结构振动及健康监测研究.E-mail:gscz19861985@126.com

Received date: 2013-10-30

  Revised date: 2014-03-18

  Online published: 2014-04-01

Supported by

国家自然科学基金资助项目(51208208);华南理工大学中央高校基本科研业务费专项资金资助项目(2014ZZ0019)

Abstract

According to the findings of traffic flow and biomechanics,a human body is considered to be a 2- DOF(Degree of Freedom) system with mass,stiffness and damping.A dynamic model of crowd- bridge coupling systemwith crowd being on the bridge is thus constructed.Moreover,the dynamic characteristics of the coupling systemaffected by the crowd are analyzed,and the dynamic response as well as the pedestrian- induced vibration parametersensitivity of the coupling system in different walking modes is investigated.The results show that (1) an additionalvibration mode of the coupling system may occur due to the presence of crowd; (2) crowd density and locationgreatly affect the dynamic characteristics of the coupling system; (3) the influence of walkers on bridge's dynamicresponse mainly depends on two factors such as whether the walking frequency is close to the vertical fundamentalfrequency of the structure and whether the crowd is of the same walking pace; and (4) both crowd density andwalking speed influence the dynamic characteristics of the crowd- bridges coupling system to different degrees.Theproposed model helps avoid the randomness of parameter selection for calculating the coupling vibration of crowdand structure.

Cite this article

Chen Zhou Yan Quan- sheng Hu Jun- liang Huang Shi- ping Yu Xiao- lin . Coupling Vibration Investigation and Parameter Analysis of Crowd- Bridge System[J]. Journal of South China University of Technology(Natural Science), 2014 , 42(5) : 75 -83 . DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1000-565X.2014.05.012

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