An Experiment Focused on Fans Behaviour and Induced Grandstand Vibrations during a Football Match

Abstract:

The sport fans behaviour has changed in recent decades, especially on football and ice hockey stadiums in the Czech Republic. Currently the fans more support their sport teams with more intensive cheering like as jumping or swaying. The main results of an experimental analysis that was focused on fans behaviour and simultaneously on the induced vibrations of a selected cantilever grandstand sector during a football match are mentioned in the paper. The actual types of fans cheering, the changes in fans behaviour during the match, relative proportion of active and passive spectators, the features and the levels of grandstand vibrations were investigated in detail.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volume 837)
• Pages: 75-78
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.837.75
• Online since: June 2016
• Authors: Martin Verner*, Tomáš Plachy, Michal Polak
• Keywords: Cantilever Grandstand, Experiment, Fans Behaviour, Stadium, Vibrations

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