Vibration


"Through a half-century of research, consulting, and teaching, Dr. Eric E. Ungar has made singular and distinctive contributions to the discipline of Shock and Vibration. His analyses of the excitation and control of structural vibrations will long remain a foundation upon which others can build."

— Shock and Vibration Information Center -- Citation for Lifetime Achievement Award

  • Analysis and design
  • Design and acceptance criteria
  • Surveys and specialized measurements
  • Mitigation analysis and design
  • Environmental assessment
  • Diagnostics and problem resolution
  • Structure-borne sound analysis
  • Structural motions -- equipment, human activities, sound, wind
  • Machinery diagnostics

Acentech assists in the design of facilities that accommodate extremely vibration-sensitive apparatus. We also work with equipment and structures that require high resistance to vibration-related damage or malfunction. Our state-of-the-art instrumentation and signal processing techniques assure precise evaluation of vibration problems and characterization of indoor and outdoor dynamic environments. We are instrumental in environmental assessment and mitigation design for transportation systems, heavy industrial plants, and mechanical equipment in large buildings. Acentech’s vibration and structural dynamics expertise has been applied to more than two hundred microelectronics, biomedical, optical facilities, and specialized installations for the National Institute for Standards and Technology, NASA, the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, and major universities.

 

Machinery Diagnostics

  • In-process product evaluation
  • Performance process data acquisition and analysis
  • Performance improvement
  • Signal processing and analysis
  • SignaTrackTM system architecture
  • Production quality assurance

The RH Lyon Division of Acentech designs and develops advanced diagnostic systems for a wide variety of developmental and industrial applications, including machine condition monitoring and production-line quality assurance systems. When a machine operates, forces are created that result in vibration and sound. Properly sensed, processed and analyzed, these signals can provide a wide array of useful performance data to determine the “health” of the machine, to control its operations and make it run more efficiently, or to make design or quality control decisions that either improve product performance or eliminate manufacturing problems in a timely way.

 

 

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