High performance vibration isolation using springs in Euler column buckling mode

J. Winterflood*, D. G. Blair, B. Slagmolen

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    Abstract

    A new vertical suspension technique utilising the remarkable properties of column springs in Euler buckling mode allows the mass of suspension springs to be reduced towards their ultimate minimum, greatly increasing the resonant frequency of internal modes, and allowing near ideal vibration isolation to substantially higher frequencies than achievable conventionally.

    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)122-130
    Number of pages9
    JournalPhysics Letters, Section A: General, Atomic and Solid State Physics
    Volume300
    Issue number2-3
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 29 Jul 2002

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