This chapter presents an application of zero-power controlled magnetic levitation for active vibration control. Vibration isolation are strongly required in the field of high-resolution measurement and micromanufacturing, for instance, in the submicron semiconductor chip manufacturing, scanning probe microscopy, holographic interferometry, cofocal optical imaging, etc. to obtain precise and rep...

This paper aims to introduce two new adaptive designs of vibration control systems. First is an absorber and the second is an isolator. Absorbers are used for suppressing unwanted vibrations, while isolators isolating them. Structural parameter changes and excitation directions significantly affect the behavior of the conventional passive controllers. A Tuned Stiffness Damper (TSD), stepper mot...

OBJECTIVES To compare the noise and vibration levels associated with three hand-held rock drills (pneumatic, hydraulic and electric) currently used in South African mines, and a prototype acoustically shielded self-propelled rock drill. METHODS Equivalent A-weighted sound pressure levels were recorded on a geometrical grid, using Rion NL-11 and NL-14 sound level meters. Vibration measurements...

In this paper, the characteristics and the effectiveness of a nonlinear passive vibration isolator based on a post-buckled beam is investigated experimentally. The intended application is specifically isolation in the vertical direction where the isolator is required to be sufficiently stiff statically to bear the weight of the isolated mass. The isolator consists of two beams joined to form an...

vibration in the air slide tables of ultra precision machines prevents gaining accuracies within nanometer level. in this work, dissimilar types of internal vibration including small vibrations and pneumatic hammers have been tested and some measures have been offered to reduce their effects. this paper has also proceeded to the vibration tests on the air slide tables built with different numbe...

This paper presents concurrent vibration control of a laboratory scaled vibration isolator platform with Active Force Control (AFC) using Iterative Learning Algorithm (ILA). The work investigates the performance of the traditional Proportional Integral Derivative Controller (PIDC) with and without AFC using ILA for vibration suppression. The physical single degree of freedom quarter car has bee...

Abstract Background The resonant-frequency-tunable vibration isolator based on Shape Memory Alloys (SMAs) combines the priority of passive and active isolators, expands its engineering application, improves efficiency isolation. However, special characteristics SMAs complexity result in difficulty finite-element analysis. Methods This article employs ABAQUS subroutine presents analysis for this...

Determination and analysis of vibration behavior of structures for at least first few natural frequencies and mode shapes needs several sensors to be connected at different non node points and exciting the structure at one point. Other method for determination of first few mode shapes is to excite several points of the structure at once and sensing the response from one point.  Both methods nee...