Measurement-Interpretation Methodology for the Evaluation of Human Perception of the Vibration in Buildings

The article contains guidelines related to the proper performance and analysis of the measurements of human perception of the vibration in buildings. The recommendations apply to both hardware requirements and the selection of measurement points as well as the analysis of the recorded signal. The buildings located in the so-called dynamic impact zone are the subjects of the analysis of the influence of vibrations on people in the buildings. In this article, the range of dynamic impact zones from different dynamic excitation is listed. An extremely important aspect of the measurements of the human perception of the vibrations in buildings is the selection of the location of measurement points. In different national standards, there are different guidelines which are compared in the article. The most proper locations are investigated. A separate issue is the selection of the measuring range and the selection of corrective filters for the analysis. New trends in this matter are shown and requirements according to the different standards are compared. A separate problem is determining the duration time of vibrations, which should be taken into analysis. It is worth noticing that the choice of duration can have a significant influence on all the results of the analysis of human perception of the vibration in buildings and many standards do not give any recommendations in this subject. The last problem of the methodology of measurements of human perception of the vibrations associated with the analysis of the measurement data is the sampling frequency of the recorded signal. The so-called N-qyst frequency has been shown in the paper and explained in a specific example…