EXPERIMENTAL MEASUREMENTS OF VIBRATION CAUSED BY RUNNING TRAIN IN THE WOODEN HOUSE

–Comparison between before and after the elevation of railway–

Abstract

To accumulate measurements of building vibrations, Sub Committee on Measurement and Analysis of Environmental Vibration and Goto laboratory at Hosei University have jointly carried out the measurement of building vibrations caused by conventional railway in a two-story wooden apartment house since 2003. In this period, for the purpose of replacing grade crossings with overpasses, the railway structure was shifted from ground railway to elevated railway. Since measurements were obtained between before and after making elevated railway, this paper focuses on the change in the building vibration characteristics and building vibration amplifications for ground-borne vibrations.