Dynamic behaviour of timber footbridges

• Autor(a) principal: Negrão, João
• Data de Publicação: 2004
• Outros Autores: Rigueiro, Constança, Rebelo, Carlos
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.11/1327
• topic: Timber footbridges; Pedestrian; Probabilistic models

In ENV1995-2:1997 (Eurocode 5-Part 2), a simplified method is proposed for checking the serviceability limit state (SLS) of vibration in timber bridges subjected to the action of streams of pedestrians. The procedure estimates the values of peak acceleration in the deck under such conditions. This paper undertakes a comparison between the values supplied by that method and those obtained through a Finite-Element based numerical analysis. A number of load cases is analysed, in which variable values of the number of pedestrians and of its walking frequency is considered. The probabilistic models used to generate the dynamic loading corresponding to these crowds are also described.