Generated inside the inner ear, spontaneous otoacoustic emissions (SOAEs) are the most salient evidence for an “active” ear. These emissions propagate back through the middle and external ears, setting the tympanic membrane in motion such that it effectively acts as a “speaker”. Better characterization of this motion would be useful for the quantification of power produced by the associated act...

BACKGROUND Fingers-transmitted vibration can cause vibration-induced white finger. The effectiveness of vibration-reducing (VR) gloves for reducing hand transmitted vibration to the fingers has not been sufficiently examined. OBJECTIVE The objective of this study is to examine tool-specific performance of VR gloves for reducing finger-transmitted vibrations in three orthogonal directions (3D)...

Drilling engineering is a high input and risk underground project, which needs the real-time down-hole diagnosis and forecast technique. Drilling string vibration signals contain full and complex vibration waves, which contains the vibration of the drilling string by itself, the vibration stimulated by the interaction of bit and the formation, the vibration induced by colliding between drill st...

There are over one million workers exposed to hand-arm vibration in the United States. Cases of handarm vibration syndrome have been reported in the U.S. since 1918. Typical hand-arm vibration exposure conditions are given in this presentation. Vibration control methods are discussed; these include vibration damping and isolation, use of antivibration (A/V) tool and gloves, and the application ...

Systems that exhibit flexible dynamics are susceptible to vibration caused by changes in the reference command and from external disturbances. Feedback control is an obvious choice to deal with these vibrations, but in many cases, it is insufficient or difficult to implement. Input shaping does not deal with vibration excited by external disturbances; however it has proven beneficial for reduci...

The mean vibration transmissibility values were measured for cotton work gloves commonly used in vibration-generating workplaces to evaluate the vibration isolating performance of cotton work gloves. The mean vibration transmissibility values of work cotton gloves were compared with those of four types of anti-vibration gloves measured in the same way. All the measurements were performed based ...

BACKGROUND Besides noise, mechanical vibration of a general effect (whole body vibration), is an important physical risk factor that occurrs in the farmers' work environment. The vibration occurs on the seats of agricultural vehicles in motion, during the performance of specified field and transportation work tasks. MATERIAL AND METHOD The study covered the measurements of time schedules of a...

This paper compares performance of a piezoelectric vibration energy harvester, in terms of output power, under different types of vibration. The most common method used to characterize a vibration energy harvester is to excite the energy harvester under a sinusoidal vibration of its resonant frequency and measure the voltage across certain electrical loads. However, in practical applications, t...

Laboratory and field experiments were conducted to determine the best procedure for predicting the discomfort caused by multi-axis vibration. In the laboratory experiment, 11 seated subjects compared single-axis vibration in one axis to single-axis vibration in another axis, and compared dual-axis vibration to single-axis vibration. In the field experiment, 22 lorry drivers rated the discomfort...