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Footbridge Vibration

A user was running a time history analysis in Midas Civil to calculate vertical accelerations on a footbridge due to pedestrian loading but was getting results (0.038 m/s2) much different than a reference example (1.16 m/s2). The Midas expert provided suggestions to better model the pedestrian loads, analysis end time, and damping ratio to improve the results. After making these changes, the maximum acceleration (1.282 m/s2) calculated in Midas was close to the reference example value.

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Footbridge Vibration

A user was running a time history analysis in Midas Civil to calculate vertical accelerations on a footbridge due to pedestrian loading but was getting results (0.038 m/s2) much different than a reference example (1.16 m/s2). The Midas expert provided suggestions to better model the pedestrian loads, analysis end time, and damping ratio to improve the results. After making these changes, the maximum acceleration (1.282 m/s2) calculated in Midas was close to the reference example value.

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Footbridge

Vibration

DK Lee

MIDAS Information Technology Co., Ltd. [1]


1. User’s Query

Title: Time history acceleration calculation

Hi Midas,

I am using midas Civil Time history to calculation vertical acceleration due to


pedestrian crowd for a cycleway bridge, however, the results from midas
(Accmax = 0.038 m/s2) is quite different from the attached example calculations
reference (Accmax=1.16m/s2). Could you please help me to advise any issues
with my model?
Some screenshot for Midas time history analysis inputs fyi.

MIDAS Information Technology Co., Ltd. [2]


1. User’s Query

Screenshot #1. Pedestrian loadings on two span continuous bridge

MIDAS Information Technology Co., Ltd. [3]


1. User’s Query

Screenshot #2. Time history load case and function

MIDAS Information Technology Co., Ltd. [4]


1. User’s Query
Reference example

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1. User’s Query
Reference example

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1. User’s Query
Reference example

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2. Answer

There are a few things to be fixed in your model as follows:


1. The pedestrian loads are applied in the same direction on the two spans. The load
directions on each span should be opposite to each other as shown below to obtain
worst effects. The loading direction should be determined based on the first mode shape.

Pedestrian loadings

First mode shape

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2. Answer

2. ‘End Time’ is set as 10 second in your model, which should be longer so that
the results can include the maximum response. The maximum acceleration can
be obtained by increasing it to 50 second as shown below.

MIDAS Information Technology Co., Ltd. [9]


2. Answer

3. The damping ratio is set as % in your model, but it is 0.6% in the reference example.

After the revision of above points, the maximum acceleration is 1.282 m/s, which is quite
close to the value of the reference example.

MIDAS Information Technology Co., Ltd. [10]


Thank you

MIDAS Information Technology Co., Ltd.


midas Civil [11]

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