Nonlinear Analysis for the Lateral Vibration of Footbridges Induced by Pedestrians

Abstract

In this paper, the factors and variables that affect the amplitude of the lateral vibration of the footbridge induced by pedestrians in Nakamura’s model are investigated in the aspect of nonlinear dynamics. Nakamura’s model is based on the motion of equations including coefficients of the rate of a pedestrian’s lateral force, the pedestrian density, the rate of synchronized pedestrians, the function