We report the first high resolution spectrum of a librational vibration for a water cluster. Four parallel bands of (H2O)3 were measured between 510 and 525 cm 21 using diode laser vibration– rotation–tunneling ~VRT! spectroscopy. The bands lie in the ‘‘librational band’’ region of liquid water and are assigned to the nondegenerate out of plane librational vibration. The observation of at least...

This paper aims to investigate the train-induced ground vibration and appropriate countermeasures using numerical modeling by Abaqus. First, the effect of appropriate boundary modeling in wave propagation studies is addressed by illustrating the application of nonreflecting boundaries in Abaqus using infinite elements. Second, the propagation of waves in the ground was investigated by applying ...

The development of the tilting train can contribute to solve the economic burden and enhance the transportation means of areas that did not share the benefits of the high speed railway. But the dynamic behavior caused by the interaction between the train and the track as well as the environmental vibrations along the railway should be evaluated to secure the safety of the train and riding comfo...

Blasting is common in the coal industry to remove rock overburden so that the exposed coal can be mechanically excavated. The ground vibrations and air blast produced by blasting are often felt by residents surrounding the mines. There has been a trend for regulatory authorities, especially those concerned with the environment, to impose low limits on blast vibration levels in response to commu...

In this paper, the two-dimensional vibration controls of a power transmission tower with a pounding tuned mass damper (PTMD) under multi-component seismic excitations are analyzed. A three-dimensional finite element model of a practical power transmission tower is established in ABAQUS (Dassasult Simulia Company, Providence, RI, USA). The TMD (tuned mass damper) and PTMD are simulated by the fi...

Given the extremely small beam sizes required at the interaction point (IP) of the next generation of linear colliders, it has long been understood that particular attention must be made to component stability, in particularly with respect to ground motion and vibration. The beam deliver systems (BDS) contain some of the most tightest alignment tolerances of the entire machine. There have been ...

BACKGROUND The haptic perception of ground compliance is used for stable regulation of dynamic posture and the control of locomotion in diverse natural environments. Although rarely investigated in relation to walking, vibrotactile sensory channels are known to be active in the discrimination of material properties of objects and surfaces through touch. This study investigated how the perceptio...

An innovative multiple isolation building system is proposed, and the influence of hardening in seismic isolators on the response of a multiple isolation building is investigated by shaking table vibration tests for a scaled structural model. From the observation in recent earthquake disasters in far-fault ground motions, e.g., the 2011 off the Pacific coast of Tohoku earthquake, a significant ...

Low frequency vibration occurs especially in ground transportation, either as a cause in adjacent environment or within the vehicle itself. The piezoelectric accelerometers commonly used for vibration measurement are not suitable, hence other sensors capable of measuring accelerations down to sub-hertz region have to be used. Based on some previous experience with MEMS acceleration sensors a th...