BS ISO BRITISH STANDARD 14837-1:2005 Mechanical vibration Ground-borne noise and vibration arising from rail systems Part l: General guidance ICS 17.160; 45.080; 93.060 BSi NOCOPYINGWITHOUTBSIPERMISSIONEXCEPTASPERMITTEDBYCOPYRIGHTL British Standards BS ISO 14837-1:2005 National foreword This British Standard reproduces verbatim IS0 14837-1:2005 and implements it as the UK national standard. The UK participation in its preparation was entrusted by Technical Committee GME/21, Mechanical vibration and shock, to Subcommittee GME/21/3, Measurement and evaluation of mechanical vibration and shock, which has the responsibility to: aid enquirers to understand the text; present to the responsible international/European committee any enquiries on the interpretation, or proposals for change, and keep UK interests informed; monitor related international and European developments and promulgate them in the UK. A list of organizations represented on this subcommittee can be obtained on request to its secretary. Cross-references The British Standards which implement international publications referred to in this document may be found in the BSI Catalogue under the section entitled "International Standards Correspondence Index", or by using the “Search" facility of the BSI Electronic Catalogue or of British Standards Online. This publication does not purport to include all the necessary provisions of a contract. Users are responsible for its correct application. Compliance with a British Standard does not ofitself confer immunity from legal obligations. Summary of pages This document comprises a front cover, an inside front cover, the ISO title page, pages ii to vi, pages 1 to 45 and a back cover. The BSI copyright notice displayed in this document indicates when the document was last issued. Amendments issued since publication ThisBritishStandardwas published under the authority Amd. No. Date Comments of the Standards Policy and Strategy Committee on 3October 2005 @ BSI 3 October 2005 ISBN 0 580 46574 8 BS IS0 14837-1:2005 INTERNATIONAL ISO STANDARD 14837-1 First edition 2005-07-15 Mechanical vibration Ground-borne noise and vibration arising from rail systems Part 1: General guidance Vibrations mecaniques- Vibrations et bruits inities au sol dus a des lignesferroviaires Partie 1: Directives genérales Reference number ISO 14837-1:2005(E) ii BS ISO 14837-1:2005 Contents Page Foreword Introductior 1 Scope, 2 Normative references 3 Terms and definitions 4 Overviewofground-bornevibrationandground-bornenoise. 4.1 Circumstances of interest . 4.2 Sourceofground-bornevibrationandground-bornenoise 4.3 Propagation.. 4.4 Receiver. 5 Effects of ground-borne vibration and ground-borne noise 5.1 General... 5.2 Perception of ground-borne vibration (1 Hz to 80 Hz). 5.3 Perception of ground-borne noise (16 Hz to 250 Hz).. 5.4 Effect on buildings (1 Hz to 500 Hz).. 5.5 Effect on very sensitive equipment and sensitive tasks (circa 1 Hz to 200 Hz). 10 6 Metrics 6.1 General 6.2 Perceptionofground-bornevibration 6.3 Perception of ground-borne noise.. 6.4 Effects on buildings .... 6.5 Effects on very sensitive equipment. L Ground-borne noise and vibration measurements. 12 7.1 Equipment (instrumentation chain). 12 7.2 Measurement locations.. 13 7.3 Data to be acquired.. 7.4 Data analysis...... 7.5 Measurement report 14 8 Concept of models . 8.1 Model development. .14 8.2 Stages of assessment. .15 9 Prediction models 20 9.1 General.... 9.2 Parametric models 21 9.3 Empirical models.. 22 9.4 Semi-empirical models 24 10 Development, calibration, validation and verification .. .24 Annex A (informative) Checklist of issues relevant to modelling and measurement... .26 Annex B (informative) Mitigation of ground-borne vibration and ground-borne noise .32 Annex C (informative) Process and tools for development, calibration, validation and verification .....39 Bibliography.. ..44 ii BS ISO 14837-1:2005 Foreword IsO (the International Organization for Standardization) is a