Project

Innovative long-span timber and wood-based hybrid floors for vibration performance and acoustic compliance

Project Description

This project aims to develop solutions to address the vibration (and acoustic) performance of long-span timber floors including lightweight (joist-type, sawn board, metal, LVL), CLT with ribbed decks (GLT), band-beam CLT and CLT on steel beam (in a structural steel frame and Timber-concrete-steel composite (TCSC) floors. New knowledge and practical solutions are expected to be generated on the dynamic and acoustic properties and manufacturing procedures of lightweight timber, mass timber, and hybrid floors.

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Objectives/Deliverables

  • A scoping study of the existing methods of assessment of vibration of floors and latest international research and development.
  • Assessment of vibration properties of a 8m long lightweight floor system in the laboratory environment (Multinail).
  • Assessment of vibration of a 8m × 8m band-beam CLT floor system in the laboratory environment (Hyne/XLam)
  • Assessment of vibration of a 9m × 6m CLT on steel beam floor system in the laboratory environment (Peikko).
  • Assessment of vibration of a 8m × 8m ribbed-deck CLT on Glulam beam floor system in the laboratory environment (Rubner).
  • Measurement of the floor vibration and acoustic performance of completed buildings and building under construction-filed tests
  • Development of guidelines for design of floor systems to vibration. Preparing the draft of Woodsolution guideline and potential arguments for inclusion in the Australian Standards (Northrop/Robert Bird Group/Aurecon/Arup)

Project Leader/s

Hassan Karampour

Project Leader; Chief Investigator

Griffith University

Hong Guan

Node Leader - Performance of Building Components; Executive Board Member

Griffith University


Project Staff

PhD Candidate

PhD Scholarship Opportunity

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Postdoctoral Research Fellow Opportunity

Research Assistant

Research Assistant Opportunity


Project Investigators

Benoit Gilbert

Project Leader; Chief Investigator

Griffith University / Queensland Department of Agriculture and Fisheries

Joerg Baumeister

Chief Investigator

Griffith University

Keith Crews

Research Hub Director; Executive Board Member

The University of Queensland

David Zhang

Partner Investigator

Multinail Australia Pty Ltd

Ali Habibi

Partner Investigator

Northrop Consulting Engineers

Arash Behnia

Partner Investigator

Robert Bird Group

Harri Onikki

Partner Investigator

Peikko Australia

Gianluigi Traetta

Partner Investigator

Rubner Holzbau Srl

Tim Butler

Partner Investigator

Lendlease

Toby Hodsdon

Partner Investigator; Steering Group Committee Chair

Arup

Tim Smith

Executive Board Member

Queensland Department of Agriculture and Fisheries

Guido Carim Junior

Chief Investigator

Griffith University

Huaizhong Li

Chief Investigator

Griffith University

Shanmuganathan Gunalan

Chief Investigator

Griffith University


Lead Project Partner Organisation


Project Partners