Brief Report
Feb 1978

Dynamic Forces Induced by Spectators

Publication: Journal of the Structural Division
Volume 104, Issue 2

Abstract

Perceptible dynamic motion of a structure can be quite disturbing. During the first football games of the 1975 season the upper stands of the new Iowa State University (ISU) football stadium were instrumented with displacement transducers and the dynamic response was recorded. An analytical effort was undertaken to explain several observed phenomenon in the dynamic data. An approximate forcing function for crowds on a football stadium was deduced.

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Journal of the Structural Division
Volume 104Issue 2February 1978
Pages: 348 - 351

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Published in print: Feb 1978
Published online: Feb 1, 2021

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Lowell F. Greimann, AM.ASCE
Assoc. Prof. of Civ. Engrg., Iowa State Univ., Ames, Iowa
F. Wayne Klaiber, M.ASCE
Assoc. Prof. of Civ. Engrg., Iowa State Univ., Ames, Iowa

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