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Simple mechanical model for human-structure interaction during walking along a slender structure
Año:2014

Áreas de investigación
  • Ingenierías

Datos
Descripción
This work focuses on evaluating the vertical movements that appear when a pedestrian is walking on a slender beam-like structure. For that, the pedestrian is modelled by a dynamic system consisting on a concentrated mass, located in its center of masses, supported by two springs which simulate the stiffness of the legs. The success of this simple mechanical model is that the resulting contact forces are well adjusted to those observed experimentally for human gait. In this way, the structure is undergoing the moving mass and is loaded with realistic forces, resulting in a proper assembly to study interaction effects. The dynamic response of the beam is obtained at any coordinate by the modal superposition method, considering a finite number of modes. Differential equations of the resulting coupled problem are solved using proper numerical techniques (variable time-step Runge Kutta method). Solutions obtained for different scenarios (depending on the mass of the pedestrian with respect to the mass of the beam and on the pace) are presented and qualitative and quantitative results are presented.
Internacional
Si
Nombre congreso
Sixth World Conference on Structural Control and Monitoring
Tipo de participación
960
Lugar del congreso
Barcelona
Revisores
Si
ISBN o ISSN
978-84-942844-6-5
DOI
Fecha inicio congreso
15/07/2014
Fecha fin congreso
17/07/2014
Desde la página
369
Hasta la página
379
Título de las actas
Proceedings of the 6th edition of the World Conference of the International Association for Structural Control and Monitoring (IACSM)

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Participantes
  • Autor: M. Cacho-Pérez University of Valladolid
  • Autor: Javier Fernández Martínez UPM
  • Autor: N. Ibán CARTIF
  • Autor: A. Lorenzana CARTIF

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