Experimental and Theoretical Identification of an Italian Pedestrian Cable-Stayed Bridge

The pedestrian bridge in Torino, designed to connect the Olympic Areas is defined one of the symbol of the modernizing and internationalization of the city. This project takes part to the retraining of the Ex General Market Area (MOI), necessary for the 2006 Torino’s Winter Olympic Games and direct to the carrying out of a Torino Olympic Village. Experimental setups were performed on the bridge deck both on the supported side of the bridge and on the cable-stayed side.Accelerometers acquisition were performed to identify natural frequencies and mode shapes of the structure. Goal of the experimental setups were been the mechanical characterization of the structure though a modal analysis. From the data was been possible to extract the several parameters to know better structure behaviour: