During the high-speed ride with speeds of up to 62.1 mph including looping, helix, and corkscrews, you can experience accelerations of 4.4 g and a feeling of weightlessness. In addition, you go through a dark tunnel and later, over it.
The Big Dipper means that only one vehicle drives and four people sit in two rows each. The outer seats are very far from the tracks, so you are floating next to the vehicle, so to speak.
Structural Analysis and Construction
Dlubal's customer Weiß Beratende Ingenieure performed the structural analysis of the roller coaster in RSTAB. For the fatigue calculation of the steel components, the internal forces were exported from RSTAB with the RS-COM interface and the fatigue designs were performed with a separate program. Weiß Beratende Ingenieure also calculated the station and the maintenance hall in RSTAB, as well as the tunnel, including the decoration house (timber structure) in RFEM.
The approximately 547-yard-long track of the Big Dipper forms a three-chord truss girder made of tubular steel sections. This truss girder is supported by a total of 76 columns. These are A-frames or fully restrained single columns. The roller coaster structure, made of S 355 steel, has a total weight of approximately 330.6 tons.
| Location | Rodewischer Strasse 21 08485 Lengenfeld |
| Client | Freizeitpark Plohn GmbH www.freizeitpark-plohn.de/en |
| Coaster Design and Manufacturer | MACK Rides GmbH & Co KG www.mack-rides.com |
| Structural Engineering, Workshop Planning, Geotechnical Engineering | Weiß Beratende Ingenieure GmbH www.weiss-ingenieure.de |
