A SIMPLIFIED METHOD FOR EVALUATING MAXIMUM RESPONSE AMPLITUDE OF THE PEDESTRIAN BRIDGES DUE TO A WALKING HUMAN

Abstract

This paper deals with a simplified method for evaluating the maximum response amplitude of the pedestrian bridges caused by a walking human. Numerical simulations were carried out for the pedestrian bridges with the structural logarithmic decrement δ₁ of 0.01-0.10. It was ascertained that the evaluation value based on the simplified method developed in this paper could be fairly in good agreements with the computed value when a person walked on the bridges with and without the same pace as natural frequency.