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      <image:title>Vibrasure Blog: Vibration and Acoustical Engineering - Audiograms for a few mammals</image:title>
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    <loc>https://www.vibrasure.com/blog/lab-building-vibration-interference-and-consequences</loc>
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    <lastmod>2024-10-19</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Vibrasure Blog: Vibration and Acoustical Engineering - Determining lab building vibration criteria: consequences vs. interference</image:title>
      <image:caption>How much vibration interference you are willing to tolerate depends on the consequences of failure within the context of the research or manufacturing program. Any given activity might have a unique profile; in this qualitative example, it takes “lots” of vibration interference to result in something more serious than a “hassle.” As vibration consultants, we often think in these qualitative terms, but we can quantify this relationship when it matters. Similar thinking applies to acoustical noise sensitivities, as well.</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.vibrasure.com/blog/non-physical-noise-and-vibration-criteria</loc>
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      <image:title>Vibrasure Blog: Vibration and Acoustical Engineering - What do we do with crazy noise or vibration criteria?</image:title>
      <image:caption>Realistic criteria acknowledge the relationship between performance and interfering parameters. In this hypothetical example, an error rate climbs with building vibration; such a dataset might be used to develop a defensible criterion. Note that for sensitive tools, the 100% error rate could conceivably occur at a level that is 100 times too small for humans to even notice.</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.vibrasure.com/blog/traffic-vibration-road-surface-quality-drives-impacts</loc>
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    <loc>https://www.vibrasure.com/blog/pass-fail-bright-line-vibration-and-noise-criteria</loc>
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      <image:title>Vibrasure Blog: Vibration and Acoustical Engineering - Bright-line vibration and noise criteria</image:title>
      <image:caption>A multi-tiered criterion can be very useful, because it allows potential customers and their consultants to engage in at least a little bit of cost-benefit analysis: should we invest in a quieter environment, or accept occasional interference?</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.vibrasure.com/blog/building-vibration-outlier-research-lab-sensitivities</loc>
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    <lastmod>2024-10-19</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Vibrasure Blog: Vibration and Acoustical Engineering - Building vibration and outlier research lab sensitivities</image:title>
      <image:caption>Even as a consultant, it is unusual to come across a situation in which a little bit of vibration interference could have disastrous consequences. However, when the stakes are high, there’s no reason to doubt that it could happen.</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.vibrasure.com/blog/using-statistical-descriptors-in-vibration-evaluations</loc>
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    <loc>https://www.vibrasure.com/blog/reproducability-vs-vibration-noise-in-animal-laboratories</loc>
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    <loc>https://www.vibrasure.com/blog/vibration-criteria-development-regimes-of-interference</loc>
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      <image:title>Vibrasure Blog: Vibration and Acoustical Engineering - How instrument criteria are developed: regimes of interference</image:title>
      <image:caption>In this hypothetical example, the error rate for a sensitive electron microscope climbs with laboratory building vibration level. For simplicity, we have collapsed numerous parameters into a straightforward “error rate” and “vibration level”.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Vibrasure Blog: Vibration and Acoustical Engineering - How instrument criteria are developed: regimes of interference</image:title>
      <image:caption>The error rate doesn’t rise linearly with vibration, and we can identify a few important regimes of error-vs-vibration in this example.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Vibrasure Blog: Vibration and Acoustical Engineering - How instrument criteria are developed: “error-vs-vibration”</image:title>
      <image:caption>In this hypothetical example, an error rate climbs with vibration level.</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.vibrasure.com/blog/environmental-vs-local-sources-of-building-vibration</loc>
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      <image:title>Vibrasure Blog: Vibration and Acoustical Engineering - Environmental vs local sources of building vibration</image:title>
      <image:caption>A decent rule-of-thumb for building vibration, including low-vibration labs and other engineered settings: environmental sources like traffic and nearby rail lines tend to dominate at low frequencies, while local sources like building machinery tend to control at high frequencies. Obviously, there are exceptions, but this is a reasonable starting point when trying to decide if a site can be made to work for sensitive uses like electron microscopy.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Vibrasure Blog: Vibration and Acoustical Engineering - Environmental vs local sources of building vibration</image:title>
      <image:caption>Here’s another example micro-vibration spectrum. These statistics are based on data taken at a proposed site for a university imaging center that would house vibration-sensitive electron microscopes. As you can see, there is a lot of energy down at around 2Hz. Based on the data, this site meets the “VC-D” criterion of 250 micro-inches/sec (6.3 micro-meters/sec). There's not much you could do to improve this site, since the spectrum is dominated by ground vibrations arriving from outside the building.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Vibrasure Blog: Vibration and Acoustical Engineering - Environmental vs local sources of building vibration</image:title>
      <image:caption>Here’s an example micro-vibration spectrum. These statistics are based on data taken across the footprint of an aging university laboratory. Obviously, there is a lot more high-frequency than low-frequency vibration. While not shown here, the narrowband (high-resolution) data indicated that building machinery vibrations dominate at high frequencies. Based on the data, this site meets the “VC-C” criterion of 500 micro-inches/sec (12.5 micro-meters/sec); however, it could perform far better if mechanical system vibrations were addressed.</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.vibrasure.com/blog/floor-vibration-how-fast-do-people-walk-in-buildings</loc>
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      <image:title>Vibrasure Blog: Vibration and Acoustical Engineering - Floor vibration: how fast do people walk in buildings?</image:title>
      <image:caption>Building occupants naturally walk faster or slower depending on setting. Clearly, people walk faster in corridors than in small rooms. Within those two categories, however, there is still some distribution.</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.vibrasure.com/blog/can-we-isolate-this-microscope-from-floor-vibrations</loc>
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      <image:title>Vibrasure Blog: Vibration and Acoustical Engineering - Can we isolate this microscope from floor vibrations?</image:title>
      <image:caption>An example transmissibility curve for a vibration isolation pad like those used to protect sensitive electron microscopes. Here, "transmissibility" can be thought of as the fraction of floor vibrations that get through the system and affect the microscope. Therefore, on this plot, lower is better: you would prefer that a lower fraction of building vibrations get through.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Vibrasure Blog: Vibration and Acoustical Engineering - Can we isolate this microscope from floor vibrations?</image:title>
      <image:caption>As before, lower transmissibility means that less building vibration gets past the isolation system and into our microscope. Universally, isolation systems perform better at higher frequencies than at lower frequencies. This is important, because imaging tools are not equally sensitive to all frequencies, and also because lab environments do not exhibit uniform micro-vibration across the spectrum.</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.vibrasure.com/blog/2016/how-to-read-centile-statistical-vibration-data</loc>
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    <lastmod>2024-10-22</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Vibrasure Blog: Vibration and Acoustical Engineering - How to Read Centile Statistical Vibration Data</image:title>
      <image:caption>The above data illustrate the likelihood of encountering different vibration levels in a laboratory. Each underlying data point is a 30-second linear average. In this case, the statistics are based on 960 observations over the course of 480 minutes between 9AM and 5PM.</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.vibrasure.com/blog/footfall-vibrations-from-walkers-in-buildings</loc>
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      <image:title>Vibrasure Blog: Vibration and Acoustical Engineering - How to think about footfall vibration from walkers in buildings</image:title>
      <image:caption>I have no idea if this distribution is remotely accurate; the point is that there is indeed a distribution, even amongst classes of tools. Note that there are plenty of instruments far more sensitive to floor vibrations than VC-D/E, but you probably shouldn’t be thinking of putting these on upper floors of buildings, to begin with.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Vibrasure Blog: Vibration and Acoustical Engineering - How to think about footfall vibration from walkers in buildings</image:title>
      <image:caption>Again, I’m just guessing at the shape of the distribution here, but suffice to say that for most people, the threshold of perception falls somewhere between 4,000 and 8,000.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Vibrasure Blog: Vibration and Acoustical Engineering - How to think about footfall vibration from walkers in buildings</image:title>
      <image:caption>Not everyone walks the same speed, and people can be more or less sensitive to vibrations. I don’t know what the actual distributions look like, but I think we can safely say that, on some level, a "normal" distribution is a decent first guess.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Vibrasure Blog: Vibration and Acoustical Engineering - How to think about footfall vibration from walkers in buildings</image:title>
      <image:caption>The absolute numbers might vary, but on average, people move more briskly in long, straight, open corridors as compared with small rooms. We can think of this as two different distributions, each centered around its own average.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Vibrasure Blog: Vibration and Acoustical Engineering - How to think about footfall vibration from walkers in buildings</image:title>
      <image:caption>It’s no surprise that some people walk faster than others. In a given setting, the walker pace depends mostly on personal gait and just how anxious someone is to get somewhere else.</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.vibrasure.com/blog/2016/reciprocity-means-vibration-isolation-looks-the-same-regardless-of-direction</loc>
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      <image:title>Vibrasure Blog: Vibration and Acoustical Engineering - Reciprocity: vibration isolation works the same, regardless of which way you look</image:title>
      <image:caption>Isolation systems act the same, whether you're trying to isolate the building from the payload (like a pump) or trying to isolate the payload from the building (like a microscope). If you understand one, then you'll understand the other. You can thank Maxwell for figuring this out.</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.vibrasure.com/blog/2016/a-quick-human-vs-rodent-hearing-comparison</loc>
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    <lastmod>2025-08-01</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Vibrasure Blog: Vibration and Acoustical Engineering - A quick human-vs-rodent hearing comparison</image:title>
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      <image:title>Vibrasure Blog: Vibration and Acoustical Engineering - A quick human-vs-rodent hearing comparison</image:title>
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      <image:title>Vibrasure Blog: Vibration and Acoustical Engineering - A quick human-vs-rodent hearing comparison</image:title>
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    <loc>https://www.vibrasure.com/blog/2016/machine-vibration-isolation-failures</loc>
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    <loc>https://www.vibrasure.com/blog/2016/why-vibration-isolation-frequency-matters-1</loc>
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      <image:title>Vibrasure Blog: Vibration and Acoustical Engineering - Why vibration isolation frequency matters</image:title>
      <image:caption>Above: an unhoused steel spring from Mason, which I just learned can be purchased on Amazon, of all places (sadly, it's not eligible for Prime).</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Vibrasure Blog: Vibration and Acoustical Engineering - Why vibration isolation frequency matters</image:title>
      <image:caption>Above: a quick comparison of vibration isolation effectiveness for a double-deflection mount and an unhoused steel spring. In general, these isolators perform better at higher frequencies and worst at lower ones. The neoprene mount is fine for many applications, but when you need a lot of attenuation or have intense vibration sensitivities, then it's hard to beat springs.</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.vibrasure.com/blog/2016/we-need-a-better-word-than-isolator</loc>
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      <image:title>Vibrasure Blog: Vibration and Acoustical Engineering - We need a better word than "isolator"</image:title>
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      <image:caption>Data above are from a single measurement, expressed in acceleration, velocity, and displacement. Obviously, these units are all different, so the curves look different, despite the fact that each spectrum relates exactly the same information.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Since we've been given a full expression of the criterion (0.8um/sec RMS in 1/3 octave bands, which happens to be IEST's VC-G curve), we can plot the data with those units and overlay the criterion. This room passes the test, but without a full expression, we couldn't say one way or the other.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The same data from before, now expressed using two different sets of units of velocity. Obviously, if you have a criterion like "0.8um/sec" then you'd better compare against the curve expressed in um/sec rather than the one in uin/sec. But are we finished? Do we have a complete expression of the "units" yet?</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Again, these are the same data as above, but now we've chosen the 1/3 octave band velocity in micro-m/sec. But if we're supposed to compare against a criterion, which scaling do we use? There's a big difference between the RMS, zero-to-peak, and peak-to-peak values.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>This is still all the same data, only we are now showing it in narrowband (1Hz bandwidth) as well as in 1/3 octave bands. Note that widths of the 1/3 octave bands scale with frequency as f*0.23, so at low frequencies (below 4Hz) the 1/3 octave band is actually smaller than 1Hz.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Predicted STC (sound transmission class) for eight different partition construction options. These are from a popular modeling software, so in some places they might be optimistic when compared against acoustical lab test data. Still, the comparison across constructions is probably pretty reasonable.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Vibrasure Blog: Vibration and Acoustical Engineering - Partition sound transmission: a rare free lunch</image:title>
      <image:caption>  A four-layer gypsum-board partition, vs. a cheaper three-layer partition. The four-layer one should provide better noise isolation, right?</image:caption>
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