Vibration control systems for sensitive equipment: Limiting performance and optimal design

Issue title: Dedicated to Eugene Sevin

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Ryaboy, V.M.

Affiliations: Newport Corporation, 1791 Deere Avenue, Irvine, CA 92606, USA. Tel.: +1 949 253 1866; Fax: +1 949 253 1800; E-mail: [email protected]

Abstract: As vibration control requirements become increasingly stringent, designers and users of vibration control equipment turn to devices and systems combining various physical mechanisms. Subsystems based on different physical effects can be combined to achieve the optimal performance for the application. Building an optimal product line that would cover a wide field of applications by combining several products, as opposed to creating one optimal device for a particular application, presents an optimum vibration control problem. This paper reviews optimum vibration control problems based on the idea of limiting performance, and discusses recent development of vibration control devices.

Keywords: vibration control, vibration isolation, damping, shock isolation, passive isolation, active isolation, active damping, optimization, limiting performance

Journal: Shock and Vibration, vol. 12, no. 1, pp. 37-47, 2005