Design Methods to Control Vibration of Solid Lumber Joist Floors

Timber floors are by far the most common structural systems used in wood-framed residential buildings,and are the only systems with which human occupants are in constant physical contact.In dwellings,the floor vibration due to walking often brings discomfort to the occupants.Designing a house that controls the agonizing vibration of floors is a difficult problem.The vibration performance of five solid wood lumber joist floors was studied as were subjective opinions of evaluators.The 1KN static deflection and fundamental natural frequency were selected as two evaluation indexes of the vibration performance.The results show that when the ratio of the fundamental natural frequency to 1KN static deflection's 0.44 power is larger than 20,the solid wood lumber joist floor can be classiified as acceptable.