Human Body Models in Structural Vibration

• A stationary person, i.e one who is sitting or standing, acts as a mass-spring-damper rather than as an inert mass in both vertical and lateral structural vibration.
• A walking or jumping person acts solely as dynamic loading on structures and thereby induces structural vibration.
• A bouncing person acts as both dynamic loading and a mass-spring-damper on structures in vertical structural vibration.