Response of a joint passive crowd- SDOF system subjected to crowd jumping load Jackie Sim, Dr. Anthony Blakeborough, Dr. Martin Williams Department of Engineering Science University of Oxford

Vibration problem on cantilever grandstand Flexible structure with large span and lightweight Synchronised crowd loadings 1.5 ~ 2.8 Hz +

Dynamic analysis of cantilever grandstand Human-structure interaction Passive crowd Crowd model Active crowd Load model

Contents Outline 1.Passive crowd model How to model the seated and standing crowds? 2.Active crowd model How to model the jumping crowd? 3.Analysis of active + passive crowds on SDOF structure What is the structural response? 4. Results 5. Case study

Passive crowd model (1) Griffin et al. – experimental tests and model development Measure the apparent mass of 24 seated and 12 standing men: DOF 1 m2m2 k 2 c 1 k1 k1 m1m1 c 2 F y 2 y 1 DOF 2

Passive crowd model (2) Curve-fitting the crowd apparent mass response Crowd model represented as transfer function Seated: Standing Fourth order polynomial i.e. 2DOF system

Active crowd model (1) Experimental tests - University of Surrey test subjects - Each individual jumping on rigid force plates -Metronome at 4 beat frequencies (1.5, 2, 2.67 and 3.5 Hz) -Synchronised test results were analysed

Active crowd model (2) Load-time history at 2 Hz Average impulse of each individual Average impulse of all individuals => Crowd jumping load

Active crowd model (3) Crowd jumping load Beat Frequency (Hz) 1 st 2 nd 3 rd Fourier coefficients High FC => Better synchronisation

ms ms F x Analysis (1) Passive crowd-SDOF system subjected to crowd jumping load SDOF structure Seated / Standing crowd Crowd jumping load Interaction force _ + Feedback system representation Displacement Acceleration

Analysis (2) Frequency domain analysis Parameters Natural frequency of empty structure: 1 ~ 8Hz Structural damping ratio: 2% Passive crowd mass ratio,  : 0 ~ 0.3 (increment of 0.05) Subjected to crowd jumping load at 1.5, 2, 2.67 and 3.5Hz

Results - Maximum displacement

Results – RMS Acceleration

Case study – Cardiff Millennium Stadium First mode at 2.9 Hz Crowd mass = kg per bay Assume  = 0.3 Structure mass = kg for one bay Structure stiffness;

Results Rugby match between Australia and France in Nov 1999 Displacement of approximately 50mm reported after the match Half full capacity Mass ratio,  = 0 ~ 0.15 Maximum displacement (mm) RMS Acceleration (times g = 9.81m/s 2 )  Crowd jumping frequency (Hz)  Crowd jumping frequency (Hz)

Concluding remarks Passive crowd adds significant damping to the system and alters the resonance frequency Preliminary analysis on the Cardiff Millennium Stadium gave good results Current work – statistical model of the crowd jumping load – taking into account the timing of each individual