Spectator live loads during football games

Journal of Structural Engineering

Volumn 123, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 1545-1547

  Bennett, Richard M ^a,c   Swensson, Kurt ^b  

^a University of Tennessee   (United States)

^b Stanley D Lindsey and Associates Ltd   (United States)

^c ASCE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MECHANICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; STEEL STRUCTURES; STRAIN; STRAIN GAGES; STRUCTURAL MEMBERS; TRUSSES;

CANTILEVER TRUSS; CROWD REACTION; RHYTHMIC CHEERING; SPECTATOR LIVE LOAD; STEEL BENT;

DYNAMIC LOADS;

EID: 0031269109     PISSN: 07339445     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)0733-9445(1997)123:11(1545)     Document Type: Article

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