
The Blocking Floor: A Low Cost Alternative to Building Base Isolation?
Buildings near rail lines are subjected to vibration that can be disruptive to occupants. As vibrations travel up through a building’s columns they decrease floor-by-floor as…
Acentech provides vibration consulting to assist in the design and analysis of buildings and facilities that accommodate vibration-sensitive equipment or occupants, such as hospitals, laboratories, and imaging facilities. Our vibration consultants work with equipment and structures that require very low levels of vibration to function. Acentech’s state-of-the-art instrumentation and signal processing capabilities assure thorough evaluation of vibration problems and provide a comprehensive characterization of indoor and outdoor environments.
Acentech’s vibration and structural dynamics expertise has been applied to hundreds of microelectronics, biomedical & optical facilities, and specialized installations. Our clients have included major universities, corporations, architects, construction companies, and government agencies like NASA, MagLab, and NIST. Client projects have included: