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The Vibration Engineering Research Section has the experimental and analysis facilities, expertise and experience to perform the following research and expert consultancy services.

• Vibration monitoring of full-scale civil engineering structures
• Modal testing of full-scale civil engineering structures
• Dynamic finite element modelling of civil engineering structures
• Finite element model correlation with modal testing results
• Finite element model updating to fit experimental data
• Vibration serviceability assessment of civil engineering structures during design (using FE analysis) and after construction (using field vibration measurements)

Our particular expertise is in dynamic analysis, assessment and testing of structures occupied and dynamically excited by people, such as footbridges, long-span floors and grandstands.

To date, consultancy service and advice on vibration serviceability of slender civil engineering structures has been provided for a range of companies in the UK including:

Email Aleksandar Pavic, Paul Reynolds or James Brownjohn for more information.

This page last updated on 12 October 2009. These pages are maintained by Paul Reynolds. If you have any comments or suggestions please email p.reynolds@sheffield.ac.uk.