Modal test of Bishop Rock lighthouse

Modal test of Bishop Rock lighthouse

1st Nov 2021
On July 20th 2021 a team from Full Scale Dynamics Ltd (FSD) carried out a modal test of the Bishop Rock Lighthousehelideck. The testing and subsequent modal analysis was part of University College London’s Future-proofing…
The New Civil Engineer magazine publishes about us

The New Civil Engineer magazine publishes about us

4th Jul 2021
A blog post by Aleksandar Pavic The New Civil Engineer has just published a piece with me talking about the rapidly developing tension between the need for the lean design of long-span building floors in a climate…
CALMFLOOR® Features in Thornton Tomasetti’s Brochure on Floor Conversions for Life Science Laboratories

CALMFLOOR® Features in Thornton Tomasetti’s Brochure on Floor Conversions for Life Science Laboratories

10th Jun 2021
We are delighted that Thornton Tomasetti, a world-leading scientific and engineering consulting firm, have included CALMFLOOR® product, made by our sister company FSD Active Ltd, in their latest brochure entitled "Life Science Conversions" on the…
Shall we stop structural modifications of low-frequency floors to achieve their vibration serviceability?

Shall we stop structural modifications of low-frequency floors to achieve their vibration serviceability?

27th Apr 2021
A blog post by Aleksandar Pavic Vibration performance of low-frequency building floors responding to human-induced footfall dynamic loading, better known as walking, is worldwide by far the most widely considered vibration serviceability requirement. It has rightly…
Is the lively building floor problem solved for good?

Is the lively building floor problem solved for good?

26th Feb 2021
A blog post by Aleksandar Pavic A quarter of a century of my dealings with excessive vibrations of building floors under footfall loading has taught me that, once a floor experiences a vibration problem, fixing it…
VSimulators facility ready to go!

VSimulators facility ready to go!

20th Jan 2021
Full Scale Dynamics played a major role in creating the EPSRC VSimulators facility at Universities of Bath and Exeter, hence we very much look forward to supporting projects using VSimulators to manage vibration serviceability in new and…
Zooming about Vibration Serviceability in Cambridge

Zooming about Vibration Serviceability in Cambridge

2nd Sep 2020
Blog post written by Professor Aleksandar Pavic, Managing Director Recently, the University of Cambridge invited me to give a seminar to their Structures Research Group on a topic of my own choosing. Of course, I accepted…
Human structure interaction in lightweight building floors

Human structure interaction in lightweight building floors

14th Aug 2020
Nowadays, structural vibrations, rather than strength govern the design of modern lightweight floors. Human-structure interaction is currently not taken into account but our recent research on full-scale structures found that it is crucial for determining…
New website launch

New website launch

6th Jun 2019
We are proud to announce a major update to our website pages. As part of a wider rebranding strategy including logo redesign, we have worked closely with local web design firm Studio illicit to develop…