Vibration isolation control in precision equipment

Vibration Isolation of Precision Objects

The need for vibration isolation of precision and vibrationsensitive objects is increasing continuously. Vibration isolation systems must comply with contradictory specifications, such as requiring reduced stiffness of isolators for better isolation, but higher stiffness for better performance of the object. Recently, expensive active isolation systems have been used to resolve these contradict...

Placement Study of Composite Vibration Isolation System for Machinery Equipment

Article history: Received: 28.11.2014. Received in revised form: 19.3.2015. Accepted: 1.4.2015. In traditional vibration isolation and placement studies, vibration participation of foundation is often ignored, and optimizations are focused on the improvements of isolated object and isolation system. In this paper, clamped thin plate was considered as the foundation, and "machinery equipment vib...

Generic Vibration Criteria for Vibration-Sensitive Equipment

The vibration criterion (VC) curves, commonly used in the design of facilities which house vibration-sensitive instruments and tools, were developed by the author and his colleagues, in the early 80’s, published by SPIE in 1991 and by IEST in 1993. Each of the criterion curves A through E is associated with a “line width” or “detail size” which was an attempt by the authors to describe the capa...

Decentralized control for multichannel active vibration isolation

This paper describes a theoretical and experimental investigation into an active four-mount vibration isolation system, in which electromagnetic actuators are installed in parallel with each of the four passive mounts placed between a three-dimensional piece of equipment and a vibrating base structure. Decentralized velocity feedback control is applied, where each actuator is operated independe...

Multi-Actuator Vibration Control Shaker Performance Dynamic Testing Equipment