Nature Communications (Dec 2021)

Emergence of the London Millennium Bridge instability without synchronisation

  • Igor Belykh,
  • Mateusz Bocian,
  • Alan R. Champneys,
  • Kevin Daley,
  • Russell Jeter,
  • John H. G. Macdonald,
  • Allan McRobie

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-27568-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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The pedestrian-induced oscillation of the London Millennium Bridge is considered as an example of emerging synchronisation. Belykh et al. provide an alternative mechanism for emergence of coherent oscillatory bridge dynamics where synchrony is a consequence, not the cause, of the instability.