Hand-arm vibration syndrome (HAVS) is a symptom entity that consists of disturbances in the circulation of the fingers (Vibration White Finger or VWF), peripheral nerves of the hands and arms, and possibly muscle, joint and autonomic nervous system disorders. Changes in HAVS were assessed in a cross-sectional and in a longitudinal study of forestry workers. Sensorineural and musculoskeletal sym...

In this paper, a new methodology is proposed to reduce the vortex-induced vibration (VIV) and improve the performance of the stay vane in a 200-MW Francis turbine. The process can be divided into two parts. Firstly, a diagnosis method for stay vane vibration based on field experiments and a finite element method (FEM) is presented. It is found that the resonance between the Kármán vortex and th...

OBJECTIVES Exposing a hind leg of a rat to vibration induces an injury to the sciatic nerve--a so called conditioning lesion. After such injury induced by vibration the regenerative capacity of the nerve is improved and can be detected as an increased axonal outgrowth from a test crush lesion to the same nerve. The purpose was to study whether the effect of a conditioning lesion induced by vibr...

Vibration of nuclear power plant components can cause fretting wear and fatigue that eventually lead to component failure. Flexible, high-aspect-ratio under flow, such as the wire-wrapped cylindrical fuel elements in a liquid metal-cooled fast reactor core, are particularly susceptible vibration due their low natural frequencies. The flow-induced vibrations experienced by tend be random amplitu...

Abstract Energy harvesting induced from flowing fluids (e.g., air and water flows) is a well-known process, which can be regarded as sustainable renewable energy source. In addition to traditional high-efficiency devices turbines watermills), the micro-power extracting technologies based on flow-induced vibration (FIV) effect have sparked great concerns by virtue of their prospective applicatio...

Risk Based Inspection (RBI) has been used for some time to optimise inspection schedules based on assessing the risk of various corrosion related degradation mechanisms. However, one degradation mechanism that has been traditionally overlooked is that of vibration induced fatigue. A proactive methodology for assessment of vibration induced fatigue was published in 2000 as part of a Joint Indust...

Dynamic analysis of supported pipes conveying pulsating fluid is investigated in Hamiltonian system using precise integration method PIM . First, symplectic canonical equations of supported pipes are deduced with state variable vectors composed of displacement and momentum. Then, PIM with linear interpolation formula is proposed to solve these equations. Finally, this approach’s precision is te...