Swinging-bell resonances and their cancellation identified by dynamical testing in a modern bell tower

Engineering Structures

Volumn 31, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1486-1500

  Lepidi, Marco ^a   Gattulli, Vincenzo ^a   Foti, Dora ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF L'AQUILA   (Italy)

^b POLITECNICO DI BARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bell tower; Model identification; Operational modal analysis; Resonance cancellation; Swinging bell resonance

Indexed keywords

AMBIENT VIBRATIONS; BELL TOWER; BELL TOWERS; COMPLEX MODES; DYNAMIC TESTS; FINITE ELEMENT MODELS; FORCED RESPONSE; FREQUENCY CHARACTERISTIC; HIGH AMPLITUDES; HORIZONTAL FORCES; MODAL PARAMETERS; MODEL IDENTIFICATION; MULTIHARMONIC; OPERATIONAL MODAL ANALYSIS; RESONANCE PHENOMENA; SLENDER STRUCTURES; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; SPECTRAL PROPERTIES; STOCHASTIC SUBSPACE IDENTIFICATION; SUPPORTING SYSTEMS; SWINGING MOTIONS; SWINGING-BELL RESONANCE; THIRD HARMONIC; TIME DOMAIN; VIBRATION MITIGATION;

BELLS; BUILDING MATERIALS; MODAL ANALYSIS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; REINFORCED CONCRETE; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; SPECTRUM ANALYZERS; STRUCTURAL DESIGN; TESTING; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

TOWERS;

CONCRETE STRUCTURE; DYNAMIC ANALYSIS; DYNAMIC RESPONSE; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MODELING; RESONANCE; STRUCTURAL RESPONSE; VIBRATION;

EID: 68649100157     PISSN: 01410296     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.engstruct.2009.02.014     Document Type: Article

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