Design Guide 11 Floor Vibrations Due To Human Activity

Steel design guide series floor vibrations due to human activity floor vibrations due to human activity thomas m.

Design guide 11 floor vibrations due to human activity.

Both human comfort and the need to control movement for sensitive equipment are considered. Aisc design guide 11. 1 1 objectives of the design guide the primary objective of this design guide is to provide basic principles and simple analytical tools to evaluate steel framed floor systems and footbridges for vibration serviceability due to human activities. Montague betts professor of structural steel design the charles e.

Montague betts professor of structural steel design the charles e. Allen phd senior research officer institute for research in. To facilitate the incorporation of these corrections this booklet has been constructed using copies of the revised pages with corrections noted. It deals with the human perception of vibration and the criteria by which it is measured.

Department of civil. Floor vibrations due to human activity the following editorial corrections have been made in the first printing 1997. Steel design guide series. The 2016 edition of steel design guide 11 like the first 1997 edition floor vibrations due to human activity presents relatively easily used means for predicting the vibrations of.

Department of civil engineering virginia polytechnic institute and state university blacksburg virginia usa david e. This publication provides guidance for vibration design of all steel framed floor and building types.