Lateral vibration of footbridges under crowd-loading: Continuous crowd modeling approach
Classical Physics
2009-01-13 v1
Abstract
In this paper, a simple 1D crowd model is proposed, which aim is to properly describe the crowd-flow phenomena occurring when pedestrians walk on a flexible footbridge. The crowd is assumed to behave like a continuous compressible fluid and the pedestrian flow is modeled in a 1-D framework using the (total) mass (of pedestrians) conservation equation. This crowd model is then coupled with a simple model for the dynamical behavior of the footbridge and an optimized modeling of synchronization effects is performed. Numerical simulations are presented to show some preliminary results.
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@article{arxiv.0901.1394,
title = {Lateral vibration of footbridges under crowd-loading: Continuous crowd modeling approach},
author = {Joanna Bodgi and Silvano Erlicher and Pierre Argoul},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0901.1394},
year = {2009}
}