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Abstract

Helicopters of the Medical Air Rescue (LPR) help transport the patients to large hospitals quickly. The requirements for the space around the helipad and flight safety mean that more elevated helipads than ground helipads are built at hospitals located in proximity to the city centres. Elevated helipads can vary in design and location depending on the opportunities offered by the hospital buildings and their surroundings. The Vibroacoustic Laboratory of the Warsaw Institute of Aviation took measurements to determine the impact of a helicopter on a hospital elevated helipad during landing or taking off. Helicopter landings are neither frequent nor long, however, they can have a significant impact on a helipad structure, the hospital building itself and its patients, staff or equipment. The impact of the helicopter includes both the noise, vibrations transmitted by the helicopter chassis and air pulsations under the rotor (low-frequency ones). This paper discusses some methods used for measuring vibration properties of several elevated helipads and building recorded during the landing and take-off of the EC135 helicopter. The sample results of such tests are also presented. The tests discussed can be used to verify both the assumptions and calculations referring to helipads and to meet the requirements of the standards in the field of noise and vibrations.
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Bibliography

[1] Act dated 8 September 2006 r. on National Medical Rescue (J. of L. 191 No. 1410).
[2] Regulation of the Min. of Health, 27 June 2019 on the hospital emergency department (J. of L. 2019 No. 1213)
[3] Federal Aviation Administration, US Department of Transportation, 2012, Heliport Design -AC 150/5390-2c, Chapter 4 - Hospital Heliports.
[4] K. Wąchalski, „Wyniesione lądowiska dla helikopterów na budynkach szpitalnych” (Elevated helipads on hospital buildings), „Inżynier Budownictwa”, Warsaw, 2018.
[5] K. Wąchalski, “Assessment of the current construction conditions for elevated helipad on hospital buildings in Poland”, Warsaw, Prace Instytutu Lotnictwa No. 3 (244), pp 189–201, 2016, http://dx.doi.org/10.5604/05096669.1226158
[6] Polish Standard PN-B-02171_2017 “Ocena wpływu drgań na ludzi w budynkach” (Assessment of the effects of vibration on people in buildings).
[7] S. Cieślak, W. Krzymień, “Initial analysis of helicopter impact on hospital helipads”, Transactions of the Institute of Aviation (256), Warsaw, pp 14 –23, 2019, https://doi.org/10.2478/tar-2019-0014
[8] W. Krzymień, S. Cieślak, “Investigation of the vibration properties of concrete elevated hospital helipads”, Vibrations in Physical Systems No. 31, Poznan, 2020.
[9] M. Szmidt, W. Krzymień, S. Cieślak, “Vibration properties of steel constructed hospital elevated helipads”, Transactions on Aerospace Research (260), Warsaw, pp 11–20 , 2020. https://doi.org/10.2478/tar-2020-0013
[10] Eric E. Ungar, “Vibration criteria for healthcare facility floors”, Sound & Vibration, 41(9) pp. 26–27, 2007.
[11] P. Ruchała, K. Grabowska “Problems of an aerodynamic interference between helicopter rotor slipstream and an elevated heliport”, Journal of KONES Powertrain and Transport, Vol. 26, No. 3, 2019, http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/kones-2019-0072
[12] A. Dziubiński, A. Sieradzki, R. Żurawski, “The elevated helipads – study of wind and rotor wash influence for most common configuration types”, 44th European Rotorcraft Forum, Netherlands, 2018.
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Authors and Affiliations

Wiesław Krzymień
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  1. Łukasiewicz Research Network – Institute of Aviation, Al. Krakowska 110/114, 02-256 Warsaw
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This paper presents the results of a dynamic response evaluation of a segmental bridge during two construction stages: before connecting the final segment of the bridge and after connecting the final segment of the bridge but prior to opening the bridge to traffic. The vibration signals obtained from Ambient Vibration Testing (AVT) campaigns were processed in order to obtain the modal parameters of the bridge during the two construction stages. Modal parameters experimentally obtained for the first stage were compared with those obtained from Finite Element (FE) models considering different construction loads scenarios. Finally, modal parameters experimentally obtained for the second stage were used to update its corresponding FE model considering two scenarios, before and after the installation of the asphalt pavement. The results presented in this paper demonstrated that a rigorous construction control is needed in order to effectively calibrate FE models during the construction process of segmental bridges.

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Authors and Affiliations

W. Hernandez
A. Viviescas
C.A. Riveros-Jerez

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