Recently, such problems have been reported that habitability is impaired by traffic-induced slight vibrations in light-weight buildings of small scales built along arterial roads. Damages on buildings have also been reported. However, fewer studies have been made on the effect of dynamic interaction on light-weight buildings that is the subject of the present paper. The authors studied the vibration of light-weight buildings (steel-frame structure with external walls made of ALC panels) of small scales built along arterial roads from the view point of habitability. Through the measurements of vibrations induced by the traffic in small (2 to 5 stories with floor area of 50 to 100m^2) and light-weight buildings (ALC-walled steel frame) and the analysis of coupled vibration system, we presented a conventional method for preventing vibration problem.
