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Design of Floors for Vibration: A New Approach
New design guidance from SCI, including a section dealing with hospitals, lays to rest worries about the vibration performance of floors of steel framed …
P076 Vibrations of floors
New publication on vibrations of floors dispels the misconception that steel framed floors have difficulty in achieving serviceability performance …
New floor design software excites
Oasys has released a new version of their Compos composite floor design software. The new version allows designers to “excite” a floor for vibration checks …
Steel-framed hospital floors ‘comfortably meet vibration limits’
New tests on floors in recently-built steel framed hospitals have demonstrated that they comfortably meet the NHS requirements on vibration response. The tests …
New tests demonstrate superior performance of steel-framed floors
Recent vibration tests on composite floors in steel-framed hospital buildings have confirmed that the real performance of composite floors is superior to that …
The real vibration performance of modern steel-framed floors
The use of steel-concrete composite floor systems for multi-storey construction has increased dramatically over recent years. Dr Stephen Hicks, Building …
Steel cuts hospital waiting time
Caunton Engineering is well advanced on steel erection for a 16,000m² extension to Stoke Mandeville hospital, near Aylesbury, Bucks. Three new buildings will …
AD 256: Design Considerations for the Vibration of Floors – Part 3
In order to retain the accurate formatting of the equations in this advisory desk, this article is available as a pdf download only. Click here to download …
AD 256: Design Considerations for the Vibration of Floors – Part 3
AD 254 Design Considerations for the Vibration of Floors – Part 2 gave a general over-view on the prediction of the acceleration and fundamental …
November/December 2005 – Steel gives hospitals ‘wow’ appeal
Steel has been making good inroads in the healthcare market over the past few years, a trend which can only be reinforced by the results from floor vibration …