Investigation of the behavior of suspended pedestrian bridges against wind loads

Zamani Piralvan, Rajab (2017) Investigation of the behavior of suspended pedestrian bridges against wind loads. Masters thesis, University of Mohaghegh Ardabili.

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Abstract

Bridges are always a symbol of the country's architectural strength. Providing necessary and sufficient access and transportation infrastructure to reach the basic facilities and the basic needs of communities is considered of the main strategies for developing countries, a development strategy whose priority is to provide safety and reliability of access. About 50% of the world's population lives in deprived areas and most of the time they deals with transportation activities to meet their basic needs. Lack of access is the thing that strengthening the cycle of poverty in these deprived communities. The poorest people in the world faced with the disadvantages of lack of direct access to basic facilities and transport infrastructure which are among the basic needs. These accesses are provided in a variety of ways, including the intersections of pedestrian bridges. Pedestrian bridge technologies have a lot of differences in performance and cost and design. A passage can be as easy as passing from a fallen tree or as complexity as multibillion industrial projects. From a structural point of view, pedestrian bridges have different shapes, each of which in impassable intersections provides safety transportation. Arched pedestrian bridges, pedestrian bridges with simple pole, metal truss pedestrian bridges, and hung cable pedestrian bridges and suspended cable bridges are from this type of bridges. This study will focus on suspended pedestrian bridges, which being cost-effective, simple design and construction with the simple and local available tools, and the lack of requirement to specific machines and the possibility of operating in remote areas are the benefits of these types of bridges. Initially, by examining the main structures of the suspended pedestrian bridges, the overall design scenario, loads requirements and design, consideration of the effects of wind on this type of bridges and their behavior against the wind have been addressed and by numerical modeling of the suspended pedestrian bridge of the Meshgin Shahr, the behavior of this bridge against the wind equation is modeled and analyzed in 3D and its critical load is at a wind speed of 27 m / s.

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