| Vibration control has become an unlikely hot topic | | | | fail-safe mounts with interlocking metal designs can be |
| these days. Making a name for itself in the news, | | | | used on static or dynamic loads. These competitively |
| vibration control has even become the subject of a | | | | priced vibration control devices sell through distributors |
| recently published report titled "Active Control of | | | | around the world. Over the years, numerous patents |
| Structures." This pamphlet "introduces active vibration | | | | have been awarded for these full-featured vibration |
| control through the use of smart materials and | | | | control mounts. |
| structures (such as MR/ER fluids, shape memory | | | | A decade into the Vibro-Insulator® line's launch saw |
| alloys and piezoelectric materials), semi-active control | | | | a rededication by the manufacturer toward an |
| devices, and a variety of feedback options. Examples | | | | improved metal-to-rubber bonding and vibration control |
| employed include telescope vibration control and bridge | | | | product line expansion. During the 1990s, the |
| cable damping," according to a press release issued by | | | | Vibro-Insulator® product line tripled in size, adding |
| the publisher. | | | | many new customers who were seeking to find |
| What puts such an overlooked topic so suddenly in the | | | | better ways to improve their products while reducing |
| spotlight? Vibration control has become a pertinent | | | | their costs. |
| issue across many industries. For instance, its methods | | | | That decade witnessed controlled rapid growth in both |
| and devices are a key element in civil engineering, | | | | custom molding and the Vibro-Insulators® product |
| where active, passive and semi-active vibrations | | | | line. A reformulation of many of the neoprene and |
| control is used in the damping of civil structures. | | | | natural rubber compounds used to make the vibration |
| Buildings and bridge towers that people encounter | | | | control Vibro-Insulators® lay at the foundation of |
| every day make use of vibration control. Especially in | | | | that rapid growth. By improving the tensile strength of |
| Japan's civil structures, where space is at such a | | | | the various elastomers, and the overall rubber-to-metal |
| premium, vibration control technology takes a front row | | | | bond of the vibration control product line, the |
| seat. There, vibration control has been setting recent | | | | Vibro-Insulators® producer achieved its goals. |
| trends. The damping of vibrations in the country's | | | | Design improvements also increased the strength of |
| cable-stayed structures is particularly active. | | | | the metal hardware used in the Vibro-Insulators®. |
| "New types of vibration control methods and devices, | | | | Enter the 21st century and active vibration control has |
| including the newly developed reduced-order physical | | | | become a state-of-the-art process in terms of its |
| modelling method for structural control," are a central | | | | theory, design and application. The main difference |
| 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. No wonder then |
| for one producer's custom-molded rubber and | | | | that the report's publisher predicts that "as the demand |
| rubber-to-metal bonded parts' research and | | | | for high performance structural systems increases, so |
| development. | | | | will the demand for information and innovation in |
| The Vibro-Insulator® line of vibration control | | | | structural vibration control. |