Experimental and analytical modal analysis of steel arch bridge

Journal of Structural Engineering

Volumn 130, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 1022-1031

  Ren, Wei Xin ^a,b   Zhao, Tong ^c,d   Harik, Issam E ^d  

^a FUZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c TIANJIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

Arch; Bridges; Experimentation; Modal analysis; Model tests; Steel; Vibration

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTATION; FREQUENCY RESPONSE FUNCTIONS (FRF); IMPULSE RESPONSE FUNCTIONS (IRF); MODEL TESTS;

DYNAMIC LOADS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; STEEL BEAMS AND GIRDERS; STIFFNESS MATRIX; VECTORS; VIBRATIONS (MECHANICAL);

ARCH BRIDGES;

EID: 13844291139     PISSN: 07339445     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)0733-9445(2004)130:7(1022)     Document Type: Article

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