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Reproduction and application of human bouncing and jumping forces from visual marker data

The immediate impact of this work has been an independent verification beyond doubt that an active jumping/bouncing human body does add damping to the human-structure system. This is contrary to some earlier beliefs based on experiments and their interpretation employing less advanced technologies. Early results from this EPSRC-funded research (EP/E018734/1) contributed to increase confidence in the novel modelling of active people as mass-spring-damper system(s). This model enhances damping and features in the current UK Stadia Design Guidance on Crowd Dynamic Loading which is used worldwide (contact: Dr John Dougill, Chairman of IStructE Working Group which developed the Guidance 2000-2008, dougill@freenetname.co.uk).