Vandal loads and induced vibrations on a footbridge

The paper describes a study to characterise intentional human dynamic loads (vandal loads) and induced effects on a footbridge. The study comprehends the development of a numerical model to characterise the dynamic behaviour of the footbridge, which is experimentally validated and used to numericall...

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Main Author: Álvaro Cunha (author)
Other Authors: Elsa Caetano (author), Carlos Moutinho (author)
Format: article
Language:eng
Published: 2011
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10216/77688
Country:Portugal
Oai:oai:repositorio-aberto.up.pt:10216/77688