This paper provides a critical analysis of the procedures available in the literature for the serviceability assessment of footbridges in unrestricted pedestrian traffic condition. Based on a full probabilistic model of walking-induced forces, Monte Carlo simulations are carried out and the numerically obtained dynamic response is compared with the one provided by simplified procedures. Furthermore, a new technical procedure is proposed which permits a direct and simple evaluation of footbridge maximum acceleration as a function of the expected average pedestrian flow and the modal properties of the footbridge.
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Tubino, F., & Piccardo, G. (2016). A critical analysis of simplified procedures for footbridges’ serviceability assessment. In Conference Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Mechanics Series (Vol. 4, pp. 293–298). Springer New York LLC. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-29763-7_28
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