New approaches to analysis and design of a stationary covering above the stadium tribunes

Abstract The stationary covering above tribunes of a stadium is reviewed as a truncated rod shell of positive curvature in the elliptical plan. The system of dimensionless spatially‐rigid parameters is obtained for this structure, and it stipulates features of stressed and deformed state of structure under the influence of assumed loads. The results of numerical and experimental studies, original positions of the suggested engineering procedure of design and calculation, results of experimental designing are adduced.