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15 - General Engineering
University of Exeter
Verification of equivalent mass–spring–damper models for crowd–structure vibration response prediction
The UK boasts worldwide the most advanced design guidelines for stadia under crowd dynamic loading featuring explicit human-structure interaction model, and more realistic and economic designs (http://www.safetyatsportsgrounds.org.uk/sites/default/files/publications/dynamic-performance-requirements.pdf). This is the first journal paper to verify experimentally the guidelines, which was key to their widespread adoption by industry. For this a unique and worldwide largest database of dynamic testing results from real-life stadia structures, funded by EPSRC (GR/S73761/01 and GR/N38206/01) and industry, was used. The guidelines have been used worldwide, including all London 2012 venues. Expedition Engineering saved 400t of steel by implementing the guidelines on the Velodrome (contact: A.Weir, andrew.w@expedition.uk.com).