Affiliation:
1. Faculty of Civil Engineering and Architecture, University of Niš, 18000 Niš, Serbia
Abstract
The aspect of resonant vibrations due to pedestrian movement is of great significance in engineering practice. Therefore, understanding the variations in the natural frequency of bridge structures under varying positions of additional mass is of particular interest. This paper presents a procedure for the straightforward determination of the natural frequencies of a beam pedestrian bridge for various positions of pedestrians or a service vehicle based on derived analytical solutions. The calculation takes into account the inertial effects of the additional load mass, modeled as either uniformly distributed or concentrated. The importance of additional load mass effects on the fundamental frequency of a beam pedestrian bridge and its dynamic response to a moving pedestrian load is demonstrated on a bridge example. The proposed solutions are also applicable to other girder system structures with uniform mass and stiffness along their span.
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