Imperial College London

Dr Ana M Ruiz-Teran

Faculty of EngineeringDepartment of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Senior Lecturer
 
 
 
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Contact

 

+44 (0)20 7594 6005a.ruiz-teran

 
 
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Assistant

 

Ms Ruth Bello +44 (0)20 7594 6040

 
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Location

 

324Skempton BuildingSouth Kensington Campus

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Summary

 

Publications

Citation

BibTex format

@inproceedings{Georgiadis:2019,
author = {Georgiadis, K and Ruiz-Teran, AM and Stafford, PJ},
pages = {1655--1662},
title = {Investigation of under-deck cable-stayed footbridges under dynamic pedestrian loading},
year = {2019}
}

RIS format (EndNote, RefMan)

TY  - CPAPER
AB - Under-deck cable-stayed (UDCS) footbridges are slender structures that promote the axial behaviour. This allows designers to take advantage of the entire sectional areas and reduce the required construction materials. Besides their high structural efficiency and sustainability, they also possess a number of other advantages such as multiple construction possibilities and strong aesthetic characteristics, therefore becoming an attractive solution in urban infrastructure. However, due to their slenderness, they are more prone to vibrations. Recent closures of footbridges of this typology, indicate that fundamental aspects of their structural response still remained unclear. This paper presents a set of example bridges built with this typology and a detailed investigation of a benchmark case under the dynamic action of pedestrians. Results show that, although ULS is satisfied using a very high deck slenderness (1/100), the SLS of vibrations is the critical design criterion that governs the slenderness of the deck (leading to values of 1/60).
AU - Georgiadis,K
AU - Ruiz-Teran,AM
AU - Stafford,PJ
EP - 1662
PY - 2019///
SP - 1655
TI - Investigation of under-deck cable-stayed footbridges under dynamic pedestrian loading
ER -