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Design Considerations: Comfort and Performance<br />

<strong>Floor</strong> System Vibration:<br />

• Frequency Content is the cycle time of the vibration, measured in<br />

cycles per second or hertz, Hz.<br />

• Humans feel more comfort <strong>with</strong> higher frequency vibrations than<br />

lower Hz cycles.<br />

• Shorter lengths of span have higher frequencies than long lengths of<br />

span.

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