Innovative long-span timber and wood-based hybrid floors for vibration performance and acoustic compliance
Project Under Development
This project aims to develop solutions to address vibration and acoustic performance of long-span timber floors including lightweight (joist-type, sawn board, metal, LVL), CLT, CLT with ribbed decks (GLT), band-beam CLT, CLT on steel beam, CLT on concrete beam, timber-concrete-composite (TCC) 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
- Scoping study to identify existing knowledge, products/practices, industry input/needs;
- Validated dynamics properties of each floor system from test results (lab/completed buildings);
- Measured perception to floor vibration and comfort levels for each floor system;
- Validated and calibrated methods for predicting vibration performance of the floor systems and compliance with International standards;
- Assessing: (1) Lightweight floors (Multinail, EWPAA, Loggo), (2) Ribbed-Deck CLT (Rubner, Northrop); (3) CLT band-beam (XLam/Hyne, Northrop, RBG); (4) Hybrid and composite CLT on steel beam/frame (Peikko, Aurecon); (5) Timber-Concrete-Composite and Acoustic (Arup & Node 1.3), Lab and field tests (Node 2.3)<>Composites (Node 1.3)<>Connections (Node 1.2)
- Practical and efficient solutions for mitigation of annoying noise and vibrations;
- Complementary to WoodSolutions Technical Design Guides #49 & #11, and relevant Australian Standard(s), NCC, BCA.
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
Hassan Karampour
Project Leader; Chief Investigator
Griffith University
Hong Guan
Node Leader - Performance of Building Components; Executive Board Member
Griffith University
Benoit Gilbert
Project Leader; Chief Investigator
Griffith University / Queensland Department of Agriculture and Fisheries
Sardar Malek
Partner Investigator
University of Victoria, Canada
Roberto Crocetti
Partner Investigator
KTH - Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
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
Toby Hodsdon
Partner Investigator; Steering Group Committee Chair
Arup
Harrison Brooke
Partner Investigator
Engineered Wood Products Association of Australasia (EWPAA)
Tim Butler
Partner Investigator
Lendlease
Hyungsuk (Thomas) Lim
Partner Investigator
University of Canterbury, Christchurch NZ
Hamid Valipour
Chief Investigator
University of New South Wales
Lead Project Partner Organisation
Project Partners
