ABSTRACT
By means of a field experiment, the vibration characteristics of a high-rise building induced by moving trains are studied in this paper. The experimental results show that the structural vibrations of the building are of low frequency properties. The horizontal vibrations of the building show the same importance with the vertical ones, and cannot be neglected. The vertical vibrations of floors are higher than the horizontal ones, and the variety characteristics with the floor elevation of the horizontal and the vertical vibrations are different, showing very complex zigzag trends. Higher train speed induces greater building vibrations, and heavier freight trains induce stronger vibrations than lighter passenger trains. The nearer the railway track is to the building, the larger the structural vibrations will be.
