This paper presents the study of the movement between a passerby and the concrete walkway of a type armor footbridge, located in the Pachuca de Soto, Hidalgo, Mexico. In which readings were taken people walking with a portable equipment. The human body modeled as a dynamic system consisting of a mass concentrated in its gravity center and two docks representing damped passage. The movement of the mass simulated in a scheme that consists vertical and lateral displacement representation in the footbridge. The influence of the wind or other type of dynamic excitation on the footbridge is not examined here. The scheme idealized in a mathematical model matrixed coupling with the motion equation, through Lagrangian mechanics. It considers the temporary movement of the mass, and the dynamic response of the catwalk. This displacement is the result obtained by the restoration of the concrete footbridge and the energy contribution of the model when walking of six proposed cases, corresponding to different frequencies of passage and human mass, obtaining values that help to identify that the structural performance of the bridge, maintains optimal service conditions.
The purpose of this work is to analyse the behaviour of steels of Low Yield Point (LYP), applying mechanical cyclic loads. To define the cyclic behaviour and obtain the behaviour of resistance, ductility and energy dissipation, numerical simulations were carried out of two structural steels (LYP100 and LYP160) and a conventional steel (Q235B), applying monotonic and cyclic loading patterns, using the analytical model by nonlinear kinematic hardening for Mróz-Garud stress fields. The results obtained in this study show consistency with recent publications, revealing that, despite the low elastic limit of the LYP steels, they improve their cyclic, ductile and energy dissipation responses, important for the control of the seismic response.
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