Identification of Walking Human Model using Agent-based Modelling

Erfan Shahabpoor Ardakani, Aleksandar Pavic, Vitomir Racic

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Abstract

The interaction of walking people with large vibrating structures, such as footbridges and floors, in the vertical direction is an important yet challenging phenomenon to describe mathematically. Several different models have been proposed in the literature to simulate interaction of stationary people with vibrating structures. However, the research on moving (walking) human models, explicitly identified for vibration serviceability assessment of civil structures, is still sparse. In this study, the results of a comprehensive set of FRF-based modal tests were used, in which, over a hundred test subjects walked in different group sizes and walking patterns on a test structure. An agent-based model was used to simulate discrete traffic-structure interactions. The occupied structure modal parameters found in tests were used to identify the parameters of the walking individual’s single-degree-of-freedom (SDOF) mass-spring-damper model using ‘reverse engineering’ methodology. The analysis of the results suggested that the normal distribution with the average of μ = 2.85Hz and standard deviation of σ = 0.34Hz can describe human SDOF model natural frequency. Similarly, the normal distribution with μ = 0.295 and σ = 0.047 can describe the human model damping ratio. Compared to the previous studies, the agent-based modelling methodology proposed in this paper offers significant flexibility in simulating multi-pedestrian walking traffics, external forces and simulating different mechanisms of human-structure and human-environment interaction at the same time.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)352 - 367
Number of pages16
JournalMechanical Systems and Signal Processing
Volume103
Early online date3 Nov 2017
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 15 Mar 2018

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