Project contact is Jianhui Zhou at the University of Northern British Columbia (Canada)
Summary
Floor vibration performance could govern the allowable span of mass timber floors. The objectives of this project are:
1. to develop a mobile app to collect data from lab and field mass timber floors for acceleration-based performance criteria;
2. to investigate the dynamic properties of mass timber floors under different boundary conditions;
3. to adopt frequency equations to predict the fundamental frequencies of mass timber floors under different boundary conditions;
4. to develop numerical modeling strategies for predicting vibration response of mass timber floors under footfall excitations.