Engineering Mechanics

Proceedings Vol. 29 (2023)

ENGINEERING MECHANICS 2023

Copyright © 2023 Institute of Thermomechanics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague

 

Bayer J.
pages 39 - 42, full text

An analytical approach is suggested that can be conveniently applied in the framework of the Vehicle scanning method (VSM). It assumes that the modal parameters of a bridge will be imported from a finite element (FE) program into MATLAB, where the structural response caused by a moving mass and a moving spring mass is solved using coupling equations and numerical integration. A mathematical formulation of the solution is presented together with a short numerical case study that compares the results to a traditional closed form solution. It is shown that when comparing both forms of analysis the suggested approach is more accurate in the case of slow velocities of the passing sprung mass. Other advantages are that the method allows for the mass of the vehicle or (tractor) towing vehicle and a damping to be included in the calculation. The user-friendly preprocessing in commercial FE programs can also be considered an advantage.

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