London Millennium Footbridge, UK.
Featured Article
In recent years, several high-profile footbridges such as the London Millennium Bridge have suffered from unexpected excessive pedestrian-induced lateral vibrations. There is a commonly accepted view that the synchronisation of pedestrian walking to the lateral movement of a structure is necessary for the onset of a form of instability which may lead to large lateral responses. Several recently published load models are based on this assumption. Yet, few experimental studies exist to support this hypothesis. (read more)
Development
A collaboration project between Femern Belt, DTU.Byg and FORCE Technology has been established in fall 2007 to create a unique testing facility to research the effect of ice accretion on bridge cable dynamics.
Design specifications for CWT... (Article, ISCD 2009, pdf-format)
Poster to the above article (pdf-format)
Research Project
DTU Byg has assembled a world-class team of researchers to undertake a research project, which aims to provide design guidelines for the mitigation of wind-induced vibrations of cables on long-span cable-supported bridges.