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Abstract: Buildings
located close to transportation corridors experience structure-borne sound and
vibrations due to passing traffic which are disruptive to operation of sensitive
equipment in manufacturing and medical facilities, and are annoying to human occupants
in residential, office and commercial buildings. There is a growing need for cost
effective sound and vibration predictions for ... read moremitigation. The research focuses on
in-situ testing of a full-scale building subjected to train-induced vibrations for
validation of a previously proposed impedance-based prediction model for ground-borne
vibrations and examination of a mitigation methodology using the validated model.
Train-induced floor vibration measurements in an existing four-story building in Boston
are compared with predictions of the analytical model. The analytical model successfully
replicates the actual measurements. The efficiency of using a thickened "blocking floor"
as a mitigation methodology is demonstrated by comparing floor vibration levels in the
validated analytical model with and without the blocking
floor.
Thesis (M.S.)--Tufts University,
2013.
Submitted to the Dept. of Civil
Engineering.
Advisor: Masoud
Sanayei.
Committee: James Moore, and Cory
Brett.
Keyword: Civil
engineering.read less
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