Effect of vehicle weight on natural frequencies of bridges measured from traffic-induced vibration |
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Authors: | Email author" target="_blank">Chul-Young?KimEmail author Dae-Sung?Jung Nam-Sik?Kim Soon-Duck?Kwon Maria?Q?Feng |
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Institution: | 1. Dept. of Civil & Envir. Eng., Myongji University, Korea 2. Hyundai Institute of Construction Technology, Hyundai E&C Co. Ltd., Korea 3. Dept. of Civil Engineering, Chonbuk National University, Korea 4. Dept. of Civil & Envir. Eng., University of California, Irvine, California, USA |
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Abstract: | Recently, ambient vibration test (AVT) is widely used to estimate dynamic characteristics of large civil structures. Dynamic
characteristics can be affected by various environmental factors such as humidity, intensity of wind, and temperature. Besides
these environmental conditions, the mass of vehicles may change the measured values when traffic-induced vibration is used
as a source of AVT for bridges. The effect of vehicle mass on dynamic characteristics is investigated through traffic-induced
vibration tests on three bridges; (1) three-span suspension bridge (128m +404m + 128m), (2) five-span continuous steel box
girder bridge (59m + 3@95m + 59m), (3) simply supported plate girder bridge (46m). Acceleration histories of each measurement
location under normal traffic are recorded for 30 minutes at field. These recorded histories are divided into individual vibrations
and are combined into two groups according to the level of vibration ; one by heavy vehicles such as trucks and buses and
the other by light vehicles such as passenger cars. Separate processing of the two groups of signals shows that, for the middle
and long-span bridges, the difference can be hardly detected, but, for the short span bridges whose mass is relatively small,
the measured natural frequencies can change up to 5.4%.
Supported by: the Ministry of Construction and Transportation, Korea Highway Corporation and Hyundai E&C Co. Ltd. under Project
No. R&D/970003-2. |
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Keywords: | ambient vibration test traffic induced vibration vehicle mass suspension bridge short-span bridge dynamic characteristics natural frequency |
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