Abstract This paper discusses the dynamic characterization of a 3 spans wooden cable‐stayed footbridge newly built in Italy. The is 235 m long and consists 2‐girder deck. edge are simply supported, while mid one (about 150 long) sustained by 16 stays linked to 2 pillars. Ambient vibration tests operational modal analyses performed identify global behaviour structure 17 stable modes identified f...

A novel approach, for identification of modal properties using a dynamic excitation induced by human walker, has previously been proposed to identify natural frequencies, damping ratios and masses. The developed approach is now expanded also estimate vibration mode shapes, thus fully characterising the behaviour structure in simple affordable way. Additionally, reliability method parametrically...