Developing Active Mass Dampers to enable post-COVID19 use of modular construction in vibration sensitive facilities

开发主动质量阻尼器，以便在新冠疫情之后能够在振动敏感设施中使用模块化结构

• 批准号: 77916
• 金额: $ 17.02万
• 依托单位: FSD ACTIVE LIMITED
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Collaborative R&D
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2020 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=77916
• 关键词: Developing; Active; Mass; Dampers; enable

During the COVID-19 crisis, a significant problem has emerged of a backlog in medical treatments that have been postponed whilst the NHS and its staff understandably focused on the immediate threats caused by the pandemic. Now that we are exiting from the most severe constraints of the lockdown, the NHS urgently needs to deal with the backlog, and it must do this within the constraints of increased social distancing and hence increased requirements for treatment space. A programme of rapid healthcare building development is required and has already been initiated. Modular buildings, which are a high quality, factory produced, rapidly constructed and highly sustainable form of modern construction, will provide a key solution to the need for rapid construction of new buildings for healthcare. We are working with the SEISMIC-II consortium of construction companies, who have been developing modular buildings for schools, to urgently adapt their designs for healthcare facilities which have much more stringent vibration criteria than schools. This can be done very efficiently and effectively through the use of active mass damper (AMD) technology - a new and exciting technology that allows the development of efficient, low cost and environmentally sustainable buildings that have excellent vibration performance. Vibration performance is of crucial importance for medical buildings. Vibrations can disturb building occupants, particularly sick and vulnerable patients, and can also affect the performance of sensitive healthcare equipment. This is a problem that has affected healthcare and laboratory buildings in the past, including both those constructed traditionally and those made from modular construction. AMDs are autonomous devices that sense floor vibrations and generate mechanical forces to cancel them out. They can be conceptualised as 'active noise cancelling headphones for floors'. They are significantly more effective than previously used methods of floor vibration control and have the potential to provide a solution to the conundrum of providing more efficient and sustainable buildings (i.e. with reduced material consumption) whilst still maintaining excellent vibration performance. In the longer term, AMD technology will provide the construction sector with a much-needed competitive advantage as it is an advanced technology that can provide a step-change in building performance and efficiency. It will increase the uptake of more sustainable structural forms, such as constrained layer timber and modular construction. Buildings and construction account for approximately 40% of global CO2 emissions so the environmental impact is potentially huge. Bringing the technology to market will generate significant new economic activity, create engineering and manufacturing jobs and provide a new commercial advantage to UK engineering and construction firms who adopt it. In summary, this project will bring a new and advanced technology to market, contributing significantly to the efforts to rapidly build new urgently required healthcare facilities for the post-COVID-19 world. It will also provide the construction industry in the UK with a new competitive advantage on the world stage and will develop further much needed high-value manufacturing in the UK, providing employment at a time when it is so badly needed.

在Covid-19危机期间，在医疗治疗中积压的一个重大问题已被推迟，而NHS及其员工可以理解地关注大流行造成的直接威胁。既然我们已经退出了锁定的最严重限制，NHS迫切需要处理积压，并且必须在社会疏远增加的限制内做到这一点，从而增加对治疗空间的要求。需要一项快速医疗保健建筑开发的计划，并且已经启动。模块化建筑物是高质量的工厂生产的，迅速建造和高度可持续的现代建筑形式，将为快速建造新建筑物的医疗保健提供关键解决方案。我们正在与正在为学校开发模块化建筑物的建筑公司的地震II联盟合作，以紧急适应其设计的医疗机构，这些医疗设施的振动标准比学校更为严格。通过使用主动质量阻尼器（AMD）技术，这可以非常有效地进行，这是一种新的令人兴奋的技术，可以开发具有出色振动性能的高效，低成本和环境可持续性的建筑物。振动性能对于医疗建筑至关重要。振动会干扰建筑物的居民，特别是病人和脆弱的患者，也可能影响敏感医疗设备的性能。这个问题曾影响过过去的医疗保健和实验室建筑，包括传统上建造的建筑和由模块化结构制成的问题。 AMD是自主设备，感知地板振动并产生机械力以取消它们。它们可以被概念化为“地板上的主动降噪耳机”。它们比以前使用的地板振动控制方法更有效，并有可能为提供更有效和可持续的建筑物（即减少材料消耗）提供解决方案，同时仍保持出色的振动性能。从长远来看，AMD技术将为建筑业提供急需的竞争优势，因为它是一种先进的技术，可以在建筑绩效和效率方面提供逐步改变。它将增加更可持续的结构形式的吸收，例如约束的层木材和模块化结构。建筑物和建筑物约占全球二氧化碳排放量的40％，因此环境影响可能巨大。将该技术推向市场将产生重大的新经济活动，创造工程和制造就业机会，并为采用它的英国工程和建筑公司提供新的商业优势。总而言之，该项目将为市场带来一项新的先进技术，为迅速建立新的急需医疗机构的医疗机构为Covid-19 World迅速建立新的努力。它还将在世界舞台上为英国的建筑行业提供新的竞争优势，并将在英国开发急需的高价值制造业，并在非常需要的时候提供就业机会。