Uncomfortable vibrations have been felt by the workers in a two storey office building of a sugar factory at times when one or more blades of its second stage cane cutter broke during its normal operation. The cane cutter is generally allowed to run with upto two or three broken blades to minimise production loss.
Various proposals to control the vibrations in the office building have been examined in the paper including possibility of reduction of vibrations at the source and stiffening of the building. However, keeping in view the nature of building and the vibrations, structural stiffening of the building was considered to be the most feasible solution. The same has been analysed in deail in the paper.