Location
St. Louis, Missouri
Date
03 Jun 1993, 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Abstract
Two rock concerts were held in the City of Gothenburg, Sweden at Nya Ullevi soccer stadium the summer of 985. The stadium is founded on driven piles in soft clay. An enthusiastic audience was jumping in time to the songs. Violent vibrations of the suspension wires and in the cantilever roof beams of the structure were observed and damage to the roof and the building itself was detected after the concerts. People on the pitch and inside the stadium building experienced excessive vibrations. Residential buildings 400 m away experienced vibrations. Concerts are at present not permitted at the stadium. The Gothenburg community suffers financially as a result of being unable to arrange concerts such as these. The high vibration level which occurred during some of the songs can be explained by resonance phenomena in the clay deposit. The paper describes the damage to the structure, the experience of people inside and outside the stadium and by the use of calculations arrives at an explanation for the excessive vibrations.
Department(s)
Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
Meeting Name
3rd Conference of the International Conference on Case Histories in Geotechnical Engineering
Publisher
University of Missouri--Rolla
Document Version
Final Version
Rights
© 1993 University of Missouri--Rolla, All rights reserved.
Creative Commons Licensing
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License.
Document Type
Article - Conference proceedings
File Type
text
Language
English
Recommended Citation
Bodare, A. and Erlingsson, S., "Rock Music Induced Damage and Vibration at Nya Ullevi Stadium" (1993). International Conference on Case Histories in Geotechnical Engineering. 7.
https://scholarsmine.mst.edu/icchge/3icchge/3icchge-session04/7
Rock Music Induced Damage and Vibration at Nya Ullevi Stadium
St. Louis, Missouri
Two rock concerts were held in the City of Gothenburg, Sweden at Nya Ullevi soccer stadium the summer of 985. The stadium is founded on driven piles in soft clay. An enthusiastic audience was jumping in time to the songs. Violent vibrations of the suspension wires and in the cantilever roof beams of the structure were observed and damage to the roof and the building itself was detected after the concerts. People on the pitch and inside the stadium building experienced excessive vibrations. Residential buildings 400 m away experienced vibrations. Concerts are at present not permitted at the stadium. The Gothenburg community suffers financially as a result of being unable to arrange concerts such as these. The high vibration level which occurred during some of the songs can be explained by resonance phenomena in the clay deposit. The paper describes the damage to the structure, the experience of people inside and outside the stadium and by the use of calculations arrives at an explanation for the excessive vibrations.
