Crowd coordination in jumping tests on a model grandstand

7th European Conference on Structural Dynamics, EURODYN 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Comer, Anthony ^a   Blakeborough, Anthony ^a   Williams, Martin S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cantilever grandstands; Dynamic load factors; Human structure interaction

Indexed keywords

DYNAMIC LOADS; FLEXIBLE STRUCTURES; NANOCANTILEVERS; STADIUMS; STRUCTURAL DESIGN; STRUCTURAL DYNAMICS; TESTING;

ACCURATE PREDICTION; COORDINATION LEVELS; DYNAMIC LOAD FACTOR; GROUP COORDINATION; HUMAN-STRUCTURE INTERACTION; OXFORD UNIVERSITY; PHYSICAL CONTACTS; STRUCTURAL MOTION;

RIGID STRUCTURES;

EID: 84959879601     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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