This paper investigates the vibration isolation performance of isolated box structures. Isolated box inside building is a one of the building isolation designs. Some experimental methods are developed to analyze the effects of bending mode of the box structure on vibration isolation efficiency. The vibration reduction performance of an isolated box inside building is found to be degraded by ben...

Humans can discriminate among the hardness of objects by tapping their surfaces. The damped natural vibration caused by tapping and its frequency are known to be the cue for the perception of hardness. This study is an investigation of the characteristics of this perception of hardness, as induced by vibration stimuli including multiple frequency components. We performed a comparative experimen...

In this article, the issue of attitude control and active vibration suppression of a nonlinear flexible spacecraft is assessed through piezoelectric patches as actuator and sensors. Two controller loops are applied: the inner loop, to make the panel vibration damped through piezoelectric patches; and the outer loop, to perform spacecraft maneuver using the reaction wheel acting on the hub. An o...

Abstract: In the positioning system of the large-scale high-precision stage, the primary resonance mode appears in low frequency even in the high stiffness stage. The resonance mode is a major obstacle of fast and precise positioning. In this paper, we apply vibration suppression PTC (Perfect Tracking Control) which can control the resonance mode actively on the largescale stage. Finally, simul...

This paper investigates the bending vibration of rotating single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) based on nonlocal theory. To this end, the rotating SWCNTs system modeled as a beam with a circular cross section and the Euler-Bernoulli beam theory (EBT) is applied with added effects such as rotary inertia, gyroscopic effect and rotor mass unbalance. Using nonlocal theory, two coupled sixth orde...

We study the influence of the contact stiffness and the ration between cantilever and tip lengths on the resonance frequencies and sensitivities of lateral cantilever modes. We derive expressions to determine both the effective resonance frequency and the mode sensitivity of an atomic force microscope (AFM) rectangular cantilever. Once the contact stiffness is given, the resonance frequency and...

We have performed laser-Doppler vibrometry measurements of the vibration of a double-paddle oscillator. Seven modes with principally out-of-plane motion have been identified. Their resonance frequencies and mode shapes are in excellent agreement with three-dimensional finite element simulations. We have found that the second antisymmetric torsional mode has exceptionally good vibration isolatio...

In our previous study, we found that a normal DC motor can be used for vibro-tactile and pseudo-force presentation. In the present study, we developed a new vibration actuator using a DC motor that can generate much stronger vibrations than a normal DC motor and produce very low frequency of vibrations. We proposed that the stator of the motor could be used as both the vibration mass and fixed ...

We used B-mode imaging to study the vibratory phenomena of the vocal folds. The presence of multilayered structures of the vocal folds in the B-mode image was verified by using freshly excised human larynges in vitro. To capture images of vocal fold vibration, a special treatment was used to reconstruct the aliasing B-mode motion pictures of vocal fold vibration. Echo-particle image velocimetry...