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SUBMITTER: Joshi V
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6227871 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Joshi Varun V Srinivasan Manoj M
Biology letters 20181031 10
Why did the London Millennium Bridge shake when there was a big enough crowd walking on it? What features of human walking dynamics when coupled to a shaky surface produce such shaking? Here, we use a simple biped model capable of walking stably in three dimensions to examine these questions. We simulate multiple such stable bipeds walking simultaneously on a bridge, showing that they naturally synchronize under certain conditions, but that synchronization is not required to shake the bridge. Un ...[more]