Abstract
For the performance of the floor in the residential building, various dwelling conditions, such as safety, health and comfort should be required. Above all, the walking feeling which is influenced by the elasticity of a floor is the important factor to the comfortable daily life. In this research, we developed "the walking impact simulator" which is possible to reproduce the human walking condition. The simulator has the two way control system and produce the three dimensional impacts corresponding to the real human walking. The results of measurement show the impact force characteristics and the time variation of impact area to the floor by walking simulator correspond well with the real walking. The vibration displacement response of various floors also show the correspondence well for the impacts by the simulator and the real walking. These results explain the developed walking simulator is substituted for the real walking effectively and it is useful for the study on living condition of floor finishing structure.
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