Stadium Design

This explains how a grandstand withstands crowd-incuced vibrations from synchronized jumping as the this crowd-structure interaction jumping up and down causes amplified oscilations in lightweight designs.

• Using a seesaw analogy demosntrates load balancing and resonance avoidance

  • by having a load pulled down from extending the roof back behind the stands it pulls up the rest of the force that is applied down from the other end.

  • this structure is then extruded around a circular form to complete the stadium design

• The physics principled applied here are dynamic loading and damping