Stockholm Waterfront Congress Centre Detailed modelling of a large steel and concrete framed performance venue Modal dynamic analysis for normal and extreme crowd loading The Stockholm Waterfront Congress Centre houses a performance venue with a capacity of 3000 spectators, of whom more than half can be seated in a stand in a cantilevered part of the building. As part of its design, and because the venue could be used for pop concerts, ELU Konsult chose to use LUSAS Civil & Structural software to carry out a detailed analysis of the natural frequencies and mode shapes of the structure as a whole, and to evaluate its response due to crowd loading at selected resonant frequencies. Structural form The load-carrying system in the SWCC consists of a 14m tall truss structuresupported by ?ve colu

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