Vibration Serviceability Assessment for Pedestrian Bridges Based on Model Falsification
Publication: Journal of Bridge Engineering
Volume 26, Issue 3
Abstract
With the development of new materials and advanced structural analysis, alongside increasing aesthetic requirements, recent years have witnessed a trend toward longer, taller, and lighter footbridges. Different from vehicular bridges, footbridges carry relatively small service loads and are more susceptible to vibrations, due to their lower stiffness, damping, and modal mass. More often than not, vibration serviceability limit state governs the design of footbridges. Providing an accurate evaluation of vibration serviceability performance of existing bridges requires techniques that can include modeling and measurement uncertainties. In this paper, a population-based method called error-domain model falsification (EDMF) is used to assess the vibration serviceability for two pedestrian bridges: Fort Siloso Skywalk located in Singapore and the Dowling Hall Footbridge located at Tufts University in the United States. The unknown properties of the footbridges are identified using the ambient vibration data measured on site. This method is also compared with two other data-interpretation methodologies, that is, residual minimization and traditional Bayesian model updating. The findings show that, through explicitly accounting for measurement and modeling uncertainties, EDMF can provide more accurate identification and prediction results for vibration serviceability assessment of pedestrian bridges.
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Acknowledgments
This research was conducted at the Future Cities Laboratory at the Singapore–ETH Center (SEC). The SEC was established as a collaboration between ETH Zurich and the National Research Foundation (NRF) Singapore (FI 370074016) under the NRF's Campus for Research Excellence and Technological Enterprise (CREATE) program. The authors gratefully acknowledge the support of Prof. Babak Moaveni for generously providing the case study of Dowling Hall Footbridge, and Sentosa Development Corporation, CPG Consultants Pte. Ltd. for the case study of Fort Siloso Skywalk. The authors also thank Prof. Siu-Kui Au for his help with Bayesian operational modal analysis.
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Volume 26 • Issue 3 • March 2021
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Received: Dec 12, 2019
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Published online: Dec 17, 2020
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