Human excitation frequencies

[Vibac]

Hi all

Can anyone direct me to statistical descriptions of common excitation frequencies for walking, running, dancing, etc.? I'm think of eg. mean frequency with standard deviation for each activity.
Would be very useful if you have a building deck with natural frequencies known from mobility tests, modal analysis or otherwise... Would help determining what activities could take place on that deck.

 

[GregLocock]

Look for books or papers by Mike Griffin from ISVR.



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[IRstuff]

While that seems to be academically interesting, most building codes, and certainly the ones in California, have other design constraints that probably trump most human activity perturbations.

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[GregLocock]

Sorry, Mike Griffin is more concerned with human response to vibration than human generation of vibration.



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[70AARCUDA]

...check the military/NASA medical tests.

...I recall seeing a whole booklet on such stuff, with data and graphs showing both Hz and G-level limits for sitting, prone, and inclined positions.

...I even think there was something about body "resonant" frequencies, too.

 

[Vibac]

Thank you all for your input.
70AARCUDA, could you give me a hint as to where to look for military/NASA medical test publications? Tried nasa.gov but got kind of lost...