TY - GEN
T1 - How building adjacency affects occupant-perceivable vibrations due to urban sources
T2 - 7th International Conference on Computational Methods in Structural Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, COMPDYN 2019
AU - Persson, Peter
AU - Kallivokas, Loukas F.
AU - Andersen, Lars Vabbersgaard
AU - Peplow, Andrew T.
PY - 2019/1/1
Y1 - 2019/1/1
N2 - Urban densification, despite the economic and social opportunities it offers, brings with it challenges to the well-being of citizens. A direct effect of densification is the rise in noise- and vibration-producing sources, which can lead to both health and comfort issues. In determining the risk associated with excessive vibration levels, the distance between the source and the receiver or target building, the ground properties, and the building type, are all important factors. In this paper, we are concerned with the effect that adjacent buildings have on the prediction of the vibration levels in a residential building, caused by external ground surface loads. The parametric studies were conducted using a coupled finite element model of the ground and the buildings. The analyses were conducted in the frequency domain, and vibrational velocity levels were computed at the receiver building in order to assess how building adjacency affects the receiving building’s vibrational response.
AB - Urban densification, despite the economic and social opportunities it offers, brings with it challenges to the well-being of citizens. A direct effect of densification is the rise in noise- and vibration-producing sources, which can lead to both health and comfort issues. In determining the risk associated with excessive vibration levels, the distance between the source and the receiver or target building, the ground properties, and the building type, are all important factors. In this paper, we are concerned with the effect that adjacent buildings have on the prediction of the vibration levels in a residential building, caused by external ground surface loads. The parametric studies were conducted using a coupled finite element model of the ground and the buildings. The analyses were conducted in the frequency domain, and vibrational velocity levels were computed at the receiver building in order to assess how building adjacency affects the receiving building’s vibrational response.
KW - Building Adjacency Effects
KW - Building Vibrations
KW - Coupled FEM
KW - Frequency Domain
KW - Ground Vibrations
KW - Parametric Study
U2 - 10.7712/120119.7331.18833
DO - 10.7712/120119.7331.18833
M3 - Paper in conference proceeding
AN - SCOPUS:85079101957
T3 - COMPDYN Proceedings
SP - 5610
EP - 5621
BT - COMPDYN 2019 - 7th International Conference on Computational Methods in Structural Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, Proceedings
A2 - Papadrakakis, Manolis
A2 - Fragiadakis, Michalis
PB - Eccomas Proceedia
Y2 - 24 June 2019 through 26 June 2019
ER -