Mar. 14, 2013
MAADI Group Pedestrain Bridge in Vibration Study
The MAADI Group engineering firm, Montréal, Québec, has had their 145-foot-long Brossard, Quebec aluminum pedestrian bridge chosen for a footbridge vibration study by Professors Scott Walbridge and Sriram Narasimhan and their team at the University of Waterloo’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. The aluminum pedestrian bridge, which spans Daigneault Creek, was chosen for this field study on vibration effects because it is the longest footbridge of its kind in Canada, it is located near a major center, and the bridge offers good access to its underside across its entire length.
The vibration research study was conducted by Professors Walbridge and Narasimhan, with lab technician Richard Morrison and graduate students Ann Sychterz, Pampa Dey, and Ayan Sadhu in Fall 2012.
