Christoph Adam

Dynamics of weakly coupled beam structures subjected to moving loads with application to railway bridges

This contribution presents the results of a fundamental study on the dynamic response behavior of railway bridges consisting of a series of weakly coupled beams subjected to moving loads. First, the impact of coupling on the natural frequencies and eigenfunctions of structures co...

Analytical free vibration analysis of planar taut two-span cables

Abstract This study presents an extension to the theory for analytically analyzing the eigenfunctions and frequency equation of a taut cable with an intermediate point support. The equations of motion for the free vibration of the two-span cable, along with the corresponding boun...