Design of damping system for footbridges
Experience from Gatwick and Ijburg
Autor(en): |
Daniel Powel
Andrea De Donno Angus Low |
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Medium: | Tagungsbeitrag |
Sprache(n): | Englisch |
Tagung: | Footbridge 2005 (Second International Congress), Venezia, 06-08 December 2005 |
Veröffentlicht in: | Footbridge 2005 |
Jahr: | 2005 |
Abstrakt: | This paper discusses the background aspects of damping design to control "synchronous lateral excitation" (SLE) in footbridges. It then explains and describes the damping systems provided for two footbridges which have been constructed recently, and reports on tests on one of them. |