Review of pedestrian load models for vibration serviceability assessment of floor structures

Z Muhammad, P Reynolds, O Avci, M Hussein - Vibration, 2018 - mdpi.com
Innovative design and technological advancements in the construction industry have
resulted in an increased use of large, slender and lightweight floors in contemporary office …

From mindless masses to small groups: conceptualizing collective behavior in crowd modeling

A Templeton, J Drury… - Review of General …, 2015 - journals.sagepub.com
Computer simulations are increasingly used to monitor and predict behavior at large crowd
events, such as mass gatherings, festivals and evacuations. We critically examine the crowd …

Experimental and numerical study on adaptive-passive variable mass tuned mass damper

W Shi, L Wang, Z Lu, H Wang - Journal of Sound and Vibration, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract Tuned Mass Dampers (TMDs) are widely used in human-induced vibration control
of footbridges. When they are tuned to the footbridges' fundamental frequency, they have …

Emergence of the London Millennium Bridge instability without synchronisation

I Belykh, M Bocian, AR Champneys, K Daley… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
The pedestrian-induced instability of the London Millennium Bridge is a widely used
example of Kuramoto synchronisation. Yet, reviewing observational, experimental, and …

Modelling framework for dynamic interaction between multiple pedestrians and vertical vibrations of footbridges

F Venuti, V Racic, A Corbetta - Journal of Sound and Vibration, 2016 - Elsevier
After 15 years of active research on the interaction between moving people and civil
engineering structures, there is still a lack of reliable models and adequate design …

Calibration of inverted pendulum pedestrian model for laterally oscillating bridges based on stepping behaviour

B Czaplewski, M Bocian, JHG Macdonald - Journal of Sound and Vibration, 2024 - Elsevier
Despite the problem of lateral excitation of bridges by walking pedestrians being intensively
studied for over two decades, there is currently no model which could quantitatively explain …

Experimental calibration of a one degree of freedom biodynamic model to simulate human walking-structure interaction

MS Pfeil, WD Varela, NPA da Costa - Engineering Structures, 2022 - Elsevier
Human-structure interaction (HSI) is a key issue in the behavior of lightweight and low-
damping footbridges displaying vertical bending vibration mode frequency within the range …

Eeklo footbridge: Benchmark dataset on pedestrian-induced vibrations

K Van Nimmen, J Van Hauwermeiren… - Journal of Bridge …, 2021 - ascelibrary.org
Vibration serviceability under crowd-induced loading has become a key design criterion for
footbridges. Although increased research efforts are put into the characterization of crowd …

[HTML][HTML] Structure-to-Human Interaction (H2SI): Pedestrian Response to Oscillating Footbridges and Considerations on Their Structural Control and Health Monitoring

A Caloni, M Morfino, M Civera, C Surace - Infrastructures, 2025 - mdpi.com
This review paper investigates the current state of research on structure-to-human
interaction (S2HI) in the monitoring and control of cyclo-pedestrian footbridges, focusing …

A simplified method to account for human‐human interaction in the prediction of pedestrian‐induced vibrations

X Wei - Structural Control and Health Monitoring, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Vibration serviceability under pedestrian‐induced loading is often the governing criterion for
slender footbridge design. During the design stage, the structural response is generally …