Evaluation of Pedestrian Comfort for a Footbridge with Hinged Piers

Shuo Yang (), Jianrong Yang and Rui Li
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Shuo Yang: Faculty of Civil Engineering and Mechanics, Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming 650500, China
Jianrong Yang: Faculty of Civil Engineering and Mechanics, Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming 650500, China
Rui Li: Faculty of Civil Engineering and Mechanics, Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming 650500, China

Sustainability, 2023, vol. 15, issue 13, 1-14

Abstract: To study the standardized evaluation method of vibration comfort of pedestrian bridges, the effect of the transient response term is ignored based on the generalized single degree of freedom (SDOF) method with reference to the American Institution of Steel Construction inc (AISC 11) specification. The resonance conditions between the crowd and the bridge structure are also considered, and the pedestrian bridge structure is simplified to an SDOF system. Then, the peak acceleration of the structure under crowd excitation is directly calculated using the generalized crowd load, and the comfort evaluation is carried out according to the German EN03 code and the Chinese code. For a new pedestrian bridge with hinged piers, human-induced vibration tests were carried out to obtain the structural acceleration time response data under various crowd load excitation conditions, and the acceleration values calculated with the numerical simulation method, the frequency response function method, the generalized SDOF method, and the proposed method were compared with field measurements. The results show that for the normal excitation condition with a crowd density less than or equal to 0.2 person/m 2 , the acceleration maximum error for the proposed method is between 4.22% and 13.28%. The error is only 6.35% compared with the finite element simulation results. The method can derive peak acceleration by performing only modal tests, eliminating errors caused by different testers and errors due to deflection measurements. It saves considerable time cost and economic cost, and improves the speed of pedestrian bridge comfort evaluation. Therefore, the method proposed for the first time in this study can accurately assess the human-caused vibration comfort of pedestrian bridges with articulated piers. Although the hinged-pier and column steel pedestrian bridge meets the code requirement of a vertical first-order frequency greater than 3 Hz, it is recommended to add TMD vibration damping measures to the bridge in order to improve pedestrian comfort.

Keywords: articulated piers; human-induced vibration; pedestrian bridge; pedestrian comfort; SDOF (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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