Draft American National Standard: Methods for measuring the vibration response of the ground

Abstract

Working Group 14 of the Acoustical Society of America/American National Standards Institute S2 Mechanical Vibration and Shock Committee (ASA/ANSI S2 WG14) was formed to develop a standard on methods for measuring the vibration response of the ground to be used when assessing potential impact upon vibration sensitive receivers in the vicinity of rail transit systems. The contents of the standard will be based upon industry accepted methods as described in the Federal Transit Administration guidance manual “Transit Noise and Vibration Impact Assessment” (FTA-VA-90-1003-06) while considering new developments since the latest version of the guidance manual was published in May 2006. This paper will describe the background of the methods and the structure, content, and status of the draft standard.