Influence of Environmental Vibration on Building Comfort

Dear Colleagues,

Building vibrations can have various sources. Earthquakes and explosions can cause large vibrations that may result in structural damage and, sometimes, total-building failure. Slender and irregularly shaped buildings can also become wind-sensitive and have large lateral movements when subjected to gusts or high winds. Occupants of the upper floors of tall buildings have reported motion sickness as a result of building vibrations due to wind; this generally occurs when humans are subjected to vibrations at very low frequencies. In addition, vehicular traffic, for example from a nearby road, can create building vibrations. Additional sources include occupants’ movements, such as walking, jogging, running, dancing, etc. These vibrations are generally small in amplitude but large enough to cause human annoyance and discomfort. Excessive vibrations of buildings and building components, such as slender staircases, due to normal human activities need attention from engineers and building owners as their occurrence has recently become more common.

Buildings invites researchers studying various topics related to the influence of environmental vibrations on building comfort to submit their work for possible publication in a Special Issue entitled “Influence of Environmental Vibrations on Building Comfort”. Contributions related to, but not limited to, the following aspects of building vibrations will be considered:

• The evaluation of human response to vibrations.
• The evaluation of forcing functions for building dynamic response predictions.
• Computer modeling of building structures subjected to various dynamic loads.
• Tests to estimate the dynamic properties of building structures and their components.
• Comparisons of analytical and experimental building models susceptible to excessive vibrations.
• Remote monitoring of building vibrations and comparison with analytical predictions.

Prof. Dr. Mehdi Setareh
Guest Editor

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• building vibrations
• vibration serviceability
• vibration evaluation/assessment
• computer modeling
• dynamic tests
• structural vibrations