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synchronous lateral excitation: a standalone construct

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Structural dynamics

self-reinforcing sway of a footbridge when pedestrians fall into step with its lateral motion, as on the Millennium Bridge.

In structural dynamics, synchronous lateral excitation refers to self-reinforcing sway of a footbridge when pedestrians fall into step with its lateral motion, as on the Millennium Bridge. This meaning comes from Strogatz (2005) in Nature.[1]

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References

Strogatz, S. H., Abrams, D. M., McRobie, A., Eckhardt, B., & Ott, E. (2005). Crowd synchrony on the Millennium Bridge. Nature, 438(7064), 43-44. https://doi.org/10.1038/438043a

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