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Structural Vibration Serviceability and Human Comfort III
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Structural Vibration Serviceability and Human Comfort III

A special issue of Buildings (ISSN 2075-5309). This special issue belongs to the section "Building Structures".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (1 March 2026) | Viewed by 462

Special Issue Editors

Prof. Dr. Jun Chen

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College of Civil Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, China
Interests: structural vibration serviceability; vibraiton control; human-induced loads; big data in civil engineering; structure health monitoring
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Prof. Dr. Qiaoyun Wu

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School of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Wuhan Institute of Technology, Wuhan, China
Interests: environmental vibration and noise control in transportation systems; structural vibration reduction and isolation techniques; structural health monitoring and damage detection; seismic and dynamic control for infrastructure systems; vibration damping and isolation mechanisms; environmental acoustics in transportation
Dr. Haoqi Wang

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College of Civil Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai, China
Interests: structural vibration serviceability; structure health monitoring; vibration control; dynamic reliability
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Structures subjected to human activities, strong wind, heavy machines, and adjacent traffic may experience excessive vibration, causing so-called serviceability problems. The ever-increasing living standards of a structure’s occupants lead to higher demands on the structural serviceability. To prevent unpleasant structural vibration, in recent years researchers and engineers have been paying increasing attention to vibration serviceability from various perspectives, including load models, calculation methods, and evaluation.

The objective of this Special Issue is to bring together the most recent research regarding the above-mentioned problem, to support the increasing needs of both academia and industry, including experimental testing, numerical calculation, design strategies, serviceability assessments, and their engineering applications.

On 24-26 October 2025, The 3rd National Conference on Vibration Serviceability of Engineering Structures was held in Wuhan, China. This Special Issue is an outcome of the conference.

Topics may include, but are not limited to, the following:

  • Human-induced vibration serviceability in building floors.
  • Vibration serviceability issues of transportation systems.
  • Wind-induced vibration serviceability of high-rise buildings.
  • Dynamic load modeling for vibration serviceability assessment.
  • Design theory and evaluation criteria for structural vibration serviceability.
  • Vibration control designs/products for serviceability improvement.
  • Development and application of vibration serviceability codes for engineering structures.
  • Case studies of vibration serviceability in engineering practice.

Prof. Dr. Jun Chen
Prof. Dr. Qiaoyun Wu
Dr. Haoqi Wang
Guest Editors

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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Buildings is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

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Keywords

  • dynamic load model
  • serviceability assessment
  • big data analysis
  • numerical method
  • serviceability design
  • human-induced load
  • structural dynamics and vibration

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Full-Scale Tests of a Styrene–Olefin Thermoplastic Viscoelastic Damper for Large-Deformation Vibration Control
by Sennan Lee, Takenouchi Kosuke and Chun Jiang
Buildings 2026, 16(4), 785; https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings16040785 - 14 Feb 2026
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Viscoelastic (VE) dampers are widely used for structural response control, but broader engineering adoption is often constrained by temperature- and amplitude-dependent properties and limited full-scale evidence on reliable performance when deformation demands exceed the conventional 300% shear-strain design domain. This study experimentally characterizes [...] Read more.
Viscoelastic (VE) dampers are widely used for structural response control, but broader engineering adoption is often constrained by temperature- and amplitude-dependent properties and limited full-scale evidence on reliable performance when deformation demands exceed the conventional 300% shear-strain design domain. This study experimentally characterizes a full-scale TRCS-type VE damper (TRCS500T-10) employing a styrene–olefin thermoplastic elastomer, with an emphasis on large-deformation and beyond-design behavior. Four nominally identical specimens were tested in a temperature-controlled chamber using sinusoidal, displacement-controlled loading at target shear strains of 300% (≈30 mm) and 450% (≈45 mm). Effective engineering parameters were obtained from stable hysteresis loops using a Kelvin–Voigt-based reduction, including effective stiffness Keff, effective damping coefficient Ceff, effective damping ratio ξeff, and dissipated energy per cycle Wd. At 300% shear strain, the dampers exhibited stable hysteresis with acceptable specimen-to-specimen variability and only modest changes in Keff, Ceff, and Wd over an ambient-temperature interval of approximately 20–33 °C, while ξeff remained around 0.40–0.42. Beyond-design tests at 450% shear strain maintained stable force–displacement loops with substantial load capacity (peak forces ≈ 435–492 kN) and increased per-cycle energy dissipation (approximately 4.0 × 104 kN·mm). Manufacturer-provided polynomial relations were used to standardize the measured properties to a reference condition and to compile a parameter-estimation table for preliminary engineering application. A monotonic ultimate test on specimen TRC500T-05 indicated an ultimate shear deformation capacity of approximately 850% without interface debonding. Collectively, the results provide full-scale evidence of a widened usable deformation range and a practical, design-oriented parameterization for thermoplastic VE dampers under large deformation demands. Full article
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