During the high-speed ride with speeds of up to 100 km/h (62.1 mph) including loops, spirals, and twists, 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 car drives and four people sit in two rows each. The outer seats are located quite a distance from the tracks, so you are virtually floating next to the car.
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. In addition, Weiß Beratende Ingenieure calculated the station and the maintenance hall in RSTAB, as well as the tunnel, including the decorative building (timber structure), in RFEM.
The approximately 500-m (547-yard) long track of the Big Dipper is a three-chord truss made of steel pipe sections. This truss 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 300 tons (330.6 US 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 |
