Measurement of the dynamic displacements and of the modal frequencies of a short-span pedestrian bridge using GPS and an accelerometer
Measurement of the dynamic displacements and of the modal frequencies of a short-span pedestrian bridge using GPS and an accelerometer
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DOI:
10.1016/j.engstruct.2010.09.013
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发表时间:
2011-01-01
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5.5
通讯作者:
Stiros, Stathis
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作者:
Moschas, Fanis;Stiros, Stathis
Signal analysis techniques (supervised-type learning filter in combination with a Chebyshev filter) constrained and tested by independent accelerometer data were used to process noisy GPS measurements of oscillations of 40 m long steel footbridge excited by coordinated jumps of a group of people. This approach permitted to de-noise the geodetic displacement record and reconstruct a minimum bias waveform for the dynamic displacement of this stiff bridge (4.3 Hz modal frequency, similar to 6 mm oscillation amplitude). This result indicates that properly processed high-frequency satellite geodetic data may be used to measure dynamic displacements not only of high-rise buildings, cable-stayed bridges and other flexible structures, but of stiff civil engineering structures as well and may be useful for the Structural Health Monitoring, analysis and design of a large range of engineering structures. It was also found that although currently used 10 Hz sampling rate GPS receivers may underestimate certain high-frequency peak displacements, this will not be a problem for the recently introduced 50-100 Hz receivers. (C) 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.