Steel Beam or Joist Vibration Software

[mrengineer]

I am looking for the best program to check floor vibrations, and would appreciate any thoughts on this.

 

[PEStructural]

Vibration from what?

 

[mrengineer]

Vibrations due to "human activity", ala AISC Design Guide 11.

 

[whyun]

RAMSBEAM has a vibration check built in based on the Murray's method for composite beams.

 

[WillisV]

Ram Structural System version 9 checks beam vibration correctly utilizing AISC Design Guide 11. RAM v9 checks vibrations by exporting them to Dr. Murray's program Floor Vibe. A demo version of Floor Vibe can be downloaded from

http://www.aisc.org

if you are an AISC member.

The most recent version of RISA 3D also claims to perform this check correctly though I have not verified it myself.

RAMSBEAM's previous implementation of the old Murray criterion is no longer valid. The Murray criterion should no longer be used - vibration is a "bay" problem not a "beam" problem. The new version of Ramsbeam no longer has vibration checking capabilities.

 

[whyun]

Does the new version of RAMSBeam have the latest AISC updates? Thanks in advance.

 

[Lutfi]

Dr Tom Murray has software that performs vibrations based on his guide and formula (AISC DG-11).

It is powerful software. However, it is DOS based and I ma not sure he re-wrote it to windows.

Regards,


Lutfi

http://www.cdeco.com

 

[WillisV]

whyun and Lufti - read my previous post as it describes the new version of Murray's software (yes its Windows and its what Ram uses and no "the new version of Ramsbeam no longer has vibration checking capabilities."