Human comfort is recognized as an essential serviceability requirement for timber floors.
Although several standards and design criteria are available for designing steel and …

Timber floor vibrations have long been a significant challenge in design and research,
growing in importance with advancements in engineered wood products and the increasing …

Granular materials promise opportunities for the development of high-performance,
lightweight vibration-damping elements that provide a high level of safety and comfort …

The reuse of shipping containers in civil construction is popular for ecological reasons and
to expedite construction, reducing the payback time for financial investments. Technological …

The higher-order harmonics of crowd loading can induce resonance in high-frequency
floors, leading to significant amplification of vibrations and potentially causing serviceability …

The paper examines the composite performance of hybrid steel‐timber lightweight floor
assemblies incorporating cold‐formed steel (CFS) profiles and plywood (PW) flooring …

Due to their advantages—longer internal force delay compared to bulk materials, resistance
to harsh conditions, damping of a wide frequency spectrum, insensitivity to ambient …

In this study, the in-plane cyclic and out-of-plane flexural performances of cold-formed steel
(CFS) floors were experimentally investigated. The experimental study provided significant …

The accurate representation of real floor behavior is crucial for assessing human-induced
vibration serviceability. Many researchers focus on developing computational models and …

In order to study the dynamic characteristics and human‐induced vibration response of light
steel foamed concrete composite floor (LCSF), the vibration characteristics of 4.2 m× 5 m …