Just how much vibration impact can traffic create? Vibrasure produced a video at a large research institution in North America to show how significant it can be in academic laboratories.
Bright-line vibration and noise criteria
If you’re outfitting a low-vibration imaging suite or laboratory, you’ve probably had to read a few tool installation guides for off-the-shelf (as opposed to hand-built) instruments. These documents are provided by instrument vendors and provide some environmental guidelines for parameters like floor vibration, acoustical noise, EMI, temperature, humidity, and more.
Building vibration and outlier research lab sensitivities
When it comes to vibration sensitivities, most lab groups operate fairly routine research programs. But if “most” groups run “ordinary” programs, then you shouldn’t be surprised when you run into one group with an extraordinary program. This happened to me many years ago, and it completely opened my eyes to the incredible diversity in R&D.
Vibrasure is growing!
Please help us welcome Tyler Rynberg, PE to the Vibrasure team!
Tyler comes to us with nearly 20 years' experience in vibration and acoustical consulting. He is uniquely capable of drawing on ideas and design cues from a broad array of project types, from healthcare to infrastructure to environmental planning. And his deepest value to our team is in his real-world experience with constructability, cost-efficiency, and engineering risk management.
Contact us to discuss your projects needs. Our growing team is distinctly qualified
and ready to help you deliver productive, efficient, and comfortable environments.
Statistical Descriptors in Vibration Data
Last month, I gave a talk at ESTECH 17 to present some of the core ideas behind the "temporally-informed" techniques for developing meaningful environmental vibration datasets. Here are some excerpts from that discussion about using statistical descriptors in evaluating micro-vibration environments.
I've previously discussed temporal vibration survey methods and the interesting -- and very useful -- statistical perspectives that can be extracted from well-crafted datasets. Now, these methods are being drafted into IEST's recommended-practices document for vibration evaluations in critical environments like laboratories.
I think this is very valuable, because there are myriad ways that temporal effects have been under-appreciated -- with regard to both risks as well as opportunities.
Reproducibility vs. Vibration and Noise Impacts in Animal Labs
Nature’s LabAnimal journal has published an interesting collection of articles regarding experimental reproducibility in animal models. Unsurprisingly, confounding stressors like noise and vibration figure into the discussion. This is precisely Vibrasure's goal for design and monitoring in laboratory facilities: to minimize confounding variables, reduce the number of animals and time required to obtain good data, and improve animal welfare.