Abstract
In recent tall buildings, high-speed elevators are operated at very high speed so that the horizontal vibration of cage becomes a very important factor for evaluating riding comfort. As is discussed in ISO 8041, vibration sensibility of human body depends on its frequency characteristics. Moreover, not a continuous vibration but discontinuous vibration is also an important factor for evaluating ride comfort of high-speed elevator. Discontinuous vibration is occurred for example by guide-rail deformation or by passing each other. In such case, human body may perceive the discontinuous vibration in different manner between one, two or three cycles of the vibration that are excited in the cage. The objectives of this study are to clarify the frequency characteristics of human body vibration sensibility in the horizontal vibration, and also to clarify a relationship between the discontinuous vibration and ride comfort. According to the experiment, it is verified that the result shows a similar frequency characteristic to ISO 8041, and that the perception level of one cycle of discontinuous vibration is almost the same as 2/3 of the continuous vibration.
