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Experimental Study on Pedestrians' Perception of Human-Induced Vibrations of Footbridges

Rujin Ma

College of Civil Engineering, Tongji University, No. 1239, Siping Road, Shanghai 200092, P. R. China

E-mail Address: rjma@tongji.edu.cn

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Lu Ke

College of Civil Engineering, Tongji University, No. 1239, Siping Road, Shanghai 200092, P. R. China

E-mail Address: 417_luke@tongji.edu.cn

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Dalei Wang

College of Civil Engineering, Tongji University, No. 1239, Siping Road, Shanghai 200092, P. R. China

E-mail Address: wangdalei@tongji.edu.cn

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Airong Chen

College of Civil Engineering, Tongji University, No. 1239, Siping Road, Shanghai 200092, P. R. China

E-mail Address: a.chen@tongji.edu.cn

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Zichao Pan

College of Civil Engineering, Tongji University, No. 1239, Siping Road, Shanghai 200092, P. R. China

E-mail Address: z.pan@tongji.edu.cn

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Abstract

Owing to the slenderness and lightness of most modern footbridges, vibration serviceability assessment becomes a crucial issue in the design process. As one of the key factors, the vibration comfort criterion has an important influence on the assessment of the final result. However, there is an obvious lack of experimental studies in this field, especially regarding the pedestrians' perception of the induced vibrations. In this study, an experiment was conducted to investigate the pedestrians' perception of human-induced vibrations of footbridges. During the experiment, the subjects walked on a pathway that was mounted on top of a shaking table. By imposing sinusoidal excitations with different amplitudes and frequencies, the experiment aimed to determine the influence of the two factors on the walking people's perception. Based on the data collected, perception scales were proposed for both the vertical and lateral vibrations of the footbridge. The established scales comprise five levels that depend on the acceleration amplitude and the frequency. Finally, a comparison between the proposed scales, existing comfort criteria in the literature and international codes was carried out.

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