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| Vibration control has become an unlikely hot topic | | | | development. |
| these days. Making a name for itself in the news, | | | | The Vibro-Insulator® line of vibration control |
| vibration control has even become the subject of a | | | | fail-safe mounts with interlocking metal designs can be |
| recently published report titled “Active Control | | | | used on static or dynamic loads. These competitively |
| of Structures.” This pamphlet | | | | priced vibration control devices sell through distributors |
| “introduces active vibration control through the | | | | around the world. Over the years, numerous patents |
| use of smart materials and structures (such as MR | | | | have been awarded for these full-featured vibration |
| ER fluids, shape memory alloys and piezoelectric | | | | control mounts. |
| materials), semi-active control devices, and a variety of | | | | A decade into the Vibro-Insulator® line’s |
| feedback options. Examples employed include | | | | launch saw a rededication by the manufacturer |
| telescope vibration control and bridge cable | | | | toward an improved metal-to-rubber bonding and |
| damping,” according to a press release issued | | | | vibration control product line expansion. During the |
| by the publisher. | | | | 1990s, the Vibro-Insulator® product line tripled in size, |
| What puts such an overlooked topic so suddenly in the | | | | adding many new customers who were seeking to |
| spotlight? Vibration control has become a pertinent | | | | find better ways to improve their products while |
| issue across many industries. For instance, its methods | | | | reducing their costs. |
| and devices are a key element in civil engineering, | | | | That decade witnessed controlled rapid growth in both |
| where active, passive and semi-active vibrations | | | | custom molding and the Vibro-Insulators® product |
| control is used in the damping of civil structures. | | | | line. A reformulation of many of the neoprene and |
| Buildings and bridge towers that people encounter | | | | natural rubber compounds used to make the vibration |
| every day make use of vibration control. Especially in | | | | control Vibro-Insulators® lay at the foundation of |
| Japan’s civil structures, where space is at such | | | | that rapid growth. By improving the tensile strength of |
| a premium, vibration control technology takes a front | | | | the various elastomers, and the overall rubber-to-metal |
| row seat. There, vibration control has been setting | | | | bond of the vibration control product line, the |
| recent trends. The damping of vibrations in the | | | | Vibro-Insulators® producer achieved its goals. |
| country’s cable-stayed structures is particularly | | | | Design improvements also increased the strength of |
| active. | | | | the metal hardware used in the Vibro-Insulators®. |
| “New types of vibration control methods and | | | | Enter the 21st century and active vibration control has |
| devices, including the newly developed reduced-order | | | | become a state-of-the-art process in terms of its |
| physical modelling method for structural control,” | | | | theory, design and application. The main difference |
| are a central focus of the pamphlet. Since 1970, the | | | | today is that active vibration control can be explained |
| Vibro-Insulator® product line of noise, shock, and | | | | through the use of smart materials and structures, as |
| vibration controls has served as the main focal point | | | | well as semi-active control devices. |
| for one producer’s custom-molded rubber and | | | | |