Monitoring the effects of simulated road traffic vibrations on a test house : experimental methods.

This paper describes experimental work to investigate damage caused to buildings by traffic induced vibrations. A vacant property founded on loose sand was subjected to separately generated ground-borne and air-borne vibrations. In the paper, the methods of vibration simulation, measurement and analysis are described. Details are given of the techniques employed to monitor small movements within the structure and the underlying soil. Finally, a supplementary experiment, examining the behaviour of a set of differentially loaded test foundation strips is described. (a) this paper was also published in acoustics '87. Proceedings of the institute of acoustics, portsmouth, 1987 (see irrd 816055). for the abstract of the paper which describes the results of these experiments see irrd 816053. For the abstract of the full report see irrd 812591. For the covering abstract of the trrl research report in which this paper was published see irrd 816050.