Pedestrian-induced lateral excitation of footbridges

This thesis investigates human-structure interactions between pedestrians and oscillating footbridges via experimental kinematic and kinetic tests. The first aspect was to improve and validate a simple frontal plane gait model, the Inverted Pendulum Model (IPM), based on kinematic and kinetic gait d...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Claff, Daniel E.
Other Authors: Williams, Martin ; Blakeborough, Anthony
Published: University of Oxford 2015
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Online Access:https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.714029