SENSATION EVALUATION TEST OF RESIDENTIAL FLOORS IN TERMS OF WALKING FEELING : Study of the residential floor vibration characteristics and floor impact sound insulation performance taking foot step sensation into consideration Part3
Year: 1998
Type: article
Abstract: The purpose of this research is to evaluate residential floors focusing on the walking feeling and to clarify the relationship with floor impact sound insulation and other physical properties. We conducted walking sensation evaluation tests on typical floor covering structures currently being used as residential floors and, calculating the psychological scale component values for floor hardness, walking ease, sensation of flexure, sensation of weight, preferability as a floor and other evaluation items, clarified changes in the values of the walking feeling of the subjects by age group due to changes in the floor covering structure. Furthermore, we developed a walking impact apparatus capable of accurately reproducing impact force properties of walking and examined the correspondence between the dynamic physical values of the floor obtained by using the apparatus and the psychological values obtained through the sensation evaluation tests. We thereupon identified the dynamic displacement values and dynamic spring constant values of the floor that provided the most favorable evaluation in terms of walking feeling.
DOI: 10.3130/aija.63.9_2
Authors: Katsuo INOUE, Sho KIMURA, Atsuo HIRAMITSU, Sawako YAGO, Hideo WATANABE
Language: English
Subfield: Civil and Structural Engineering
Field: Engineering
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W196397579