Assessment of comfort of use of footbridges
Marek Pańtak
Kinga Marecik
Abstract
To assess the comfort of use of the structures designed for human use during its vibrations it is necessary to know the requirement of the comfort criteria for the specific type of the structure. In the paper the issue of evaluation of the footbridges vibrations acceptability along with proposal of comfort criteria for the footbridges elaborated on the basis of survey researches were presented. The proposal of the vibration comfort criteria taking into account frequency of vibrations occurrence (frequent, rare and exceptional events) were characterized and compared with propositions of other authors, standards and recommendations.
Keywords:
comfort, footbridges, vibrations, dynamics, serviceability limit stateReferences
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Flaga A., Pańtak M. 2003. The Comfort criteria in the design of footbridges. Proc. of Sem. Design, construction and aesthetics of pedestrian bridges, Cracow University of Technology, p. 7–27.
Flaga A., Pańtak M. 2008. Vibration comfort criteria for pedestrians on footbridges. Proc. Third Inter. Conf.
Footbridges, Faculdade de Engenharia Universidade do Porto, Porto. Footbridges – Assessment of vibrational behaviour of footbridges under pedestrian loading – Practical Guidelines. 2006. Technical Department for Transport, Roads and Bridges Engineering and Road Safety (Service d’études techniques des routes et autoroutes – SÉTRA), Paris.
Grundmann H., Kreuzinger H., Schneider M. 1993. Schwingungsuntersuchungen für Fußgängerbrücken. Springer-Verlag, Bauingenieur, 68: 215–225.
ISO 10137:2007. Bases for Design of Structures. Serviceability of buildings and walkways against vibrations. 2007. International Organization for Standardization, Geneva.
ISO 2631:2–1989. Mechanical vibration and shock. Evaluation of human exposure to whole-body vibration. Part 2. Continuous and shock-induced vibration in buildings (1 to 80 Hz). 1989. International Standardization Organization, Geneva.
Leonard D.R. 1966. Human tolerance levels for bridge vibrations. RRL, Report No. 34, Harmondsworth.
Pańtak M. 2007. Analysis of vibration comfort criteria for steel footbridges susceptible to dynamic actions. PhD Thesis, Cracow University of Technology, Cracow.
Pańtak M. 2012. Application of EN 1990/A1 vibration serviceability limit state requirements for steel footbridges. Procedia Engineering, 40: 345 – 350.
PN-B-02171. Evaluation of the impact of vibrations on people in buildings. 1988. PKN, Warszawa.
PN-EN 1990:2004/A1. Eurocode – Basis of structural design. 2008. Chapter A2.4. PKN, Warszawa.
PN-EN 1991-2:2007. Eurocode 1: Actions on structures. Part 2. Traffic loads on bridges. 2007. Chapter 5.1(4). PKN, Warszawa.
Steel, Concrete and Composite Bridges. Part 2. Specification for Loads. 1978. BS 5400-2:1978. British Standards Association, London.
Pańtak, M., & Marecik, K. (2018). Assessment of comfort of use of footbridges. Technical Sciences, 21(3), 233–246. https://doi.org/10.31648/ts.2891
Marek Pańtak
Kinga Marecik
