David L. Bowen
Principal
Product Sound | Market Leader
Labs + Sensitive Facilities | Market Co-Leader
A Vibration Primer for Appliance Designers
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Appliances and other motorized products all produce some amount of noise, and in many cases this noise results directly from vibration of structural or housing elements…(this article was published 8/1/2016 by Appliance Design magazine, PDF download below).
About The Author
“I enjoy the large variety of interesting projects that we get involved with here at Acentech, especially the “detective work” aspect of figuring out the sources of noise and vibration. I joined Acentech as part of the merger with RH Lyon Corp in 2005, and the late Dick Lyon (my former thesis advisor at MIT and a luminary in this field) was an inspiration to me throughout my career.”
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