| dc.description.abstract | Pools in apartments and hotels are commonly isolated from the building structure to ensure noise and vibration from a pool is not transmitted to surrounding spaces. Currently no standardised test exists to compare the effec-tiveness of isolation systems. Previous testing has measured vibration levels in the building structure with a per-son using the pool. The inconsistent input forces applied to the pool creates limitations to how data from existing tests can be compared between pools. For this paper, vibration characteristics of pushing a barrel into a pool were compared with that of a person bombing into a pool, in order to test the validity of using a barrel to repre-sent the impact of a person in future tests. The variation in vibration levels of each test was also examined, to determine whether a barrel drop produces a consistent vibration response. These tests were repeated in three pools, with a Svantek 958A analyser connected to a tri-axial accelerometer to record vibration levels from vari-ous locations. The vibration characteristics of a barrel impact were found to be similar to that of a person, albeit of a larger magnitude. The barrel was also found to produce vibration levels with less variation between tests | en_US |
