Design Guide 11 Floor Vibrations Due To Human Activity

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Design guide 11 floor vibrations due to human activity.

To facilitate the incorporation of these corrections this booklet has been constructed using copies of the revised pages with corrections noted. This second edition of design guide 11 expands and updates the original version with new material based on the large volume of literature that has been published on the response of steel framed structural systems including floors monumental stairs and balconies due to human activity since the original design guide was published. Floor vibrations due to human activity the following editorial corrections have been made in the first printing 1997. This publication provides guidance for vibration design of all steel framed floor and building types.

Department of civil engineering virginia polytechnic institute and state university blacksburg virginia usa david e. The concepts of floor response and the different types of excitation produced by occupant induced vibrations are explained. Department of civil. 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.

Floor vibrations due to human activity thomas m. Allen phd senior research officer institute for research in. Montague betts professor of structural steel design the charles e. Steel design guide series.

Montague betts professor of structural steel design the charles e. It deals with the human perception of vibration and the criteria by which it is measured.