Chain saws were first used in Kyusyu in 1956 for cutting down trees and sawing timber in the national forests. In 1961, some workers complained of symptoms due to the vibrations, but countermeasures were not taken until later. The working system and payment system in those times were different from the systems, today. The magnitudes of the chain saw vibrations were very large and the chain saws...

The computational intelligent technique is frequently used by different authors to design the control part of active vibration control system to minimize the vibration of different structures. The purpose of this review paper is to collect different research papers on vibration control method using modern computation intelligent techniques such as Fuzzy logic technique and neural network techni...

We propose and experimentally demonstrate a novel ultra-long range and sensitive distributed fiber vibration sensor. Only one unidirectional Mach-Zehnder interferometer (MZI) is employed in this scheme as the sensing element. In this sensor structure, we utilize chromatic dispersion-induced walk-off effect between the vibration signals sensed by two distributed feedback (DFB) lasers at differen...

We examined the left ventricular functional response to externally applied vibration using four canine open chest preparations. A sinusoidal 30 Hz vibration (2.7 mm in amplitude) was applied to the ventricular epicardium at each level of propranolol-induced myocardial depression. External vibration in control conditions induced no significant change either in peak left ventricular pressure (LVP...

Internal friction and void ratio will change among granular particles under vibration, and the size of void ratio directly affects strength of granular media. To further study the effect of vibration parameters on granular mechanical properties, discrete element method is used to simulate particles motion in a vibrating rectangular case by PFC2D software and study the influence of vibration fre...

Prolonged exposure to vibration has been associated with the development of handarm vibration syndrome (HAVS). While vibration is known to have adverse physiological effects on the tissues of the human hand, it is still unclear how these physiological effects are influenced by factors such as tissue thickness or vibration intensity, frequency, and duration. Understanding the response of the han...

This systematic review examines the efficacy and safety of whole body vibration (WBV) on fracture healing. A systematic literature search was conducted with relevant keywords in PubMed and Embase, independently, by two reviewers. Original animal and clinical studies about WBV effects on fracture healing with available full-text and written in English were included. Information was extracted fro...

Flagellar axonemes of sea urchin sperm display high frequency (200-400 Hz) vibration with nanometer scale amplitudes in the presence of ATP [Kamimura and Kamiya, 1992: J. Cell Biol. 116:1443-1454]. To investigate how various axonemal components affect the vibration, we examined vibration in wild-type and mutant axonemes of Chlamydomonas. At 1 mM ATP, wild-type axonemes underwent vibration at 10...

This paper presents the main findings of a field survey conducted in the United Kingdom into the human response to vibration in residential environments. The main aim of this study was to derive exposure-response relationships for annoyance due to vibration from environmental sources. The sources of vibration considered in this paper are railway and construction activity. Annoyance data were co...

OBJECTIVE This randomized controlled study was designed to investigate the short-term effects of an 8-wk whole-body vibration protocol on muscle performance and flexibility in female competitive athletes. DESIGN Twenty-six young volunteer female athletes (ages 21-27 yrs) were randomized to either the vibration group or control group. The vibration intervention consisted of an 8-wk whole-body ...