By Eugene I. Rivin

Provides background theory and practical solutions for engineersthat face vibration problems causing equipment failure, downtime,and extra maintenance costs.

It emphasizes proven, effective techniques that are not yetwidely used on equipment for microelectronics, MEMS, andnanotechnology, as well as process plants, power generation, oil,gas, petrochemicals, and other industries.

Vibration isolation is a vibration control technique in whichthe source of vibration excitation and the object to be protectedare separated by an auxiliary system comprising special devicescalled vibration isolators or vibration isolating mounts.

The four chapters of the book describe:

• basic analytical tools for designing such systems
• principles and criteria for assigning principal parameters(natural frequencies and damping values) necessary for successfulfunctioning of passive vibration isolation systems for major groupsof objects (vibration-sensitive objects, vibration-generatingobjects, general purpose machinery)
• static and dynamic characteristics of the most widely usedmaterials for vibration isolators
• basic designs of vibration isolators for variousapplications

Addressing practitioners, the book offers problems and solutionsrelevant not only to the isolation of stationary sensitiveequipment, but also to civil engineering and transportapplications.

Today, tolerances on acceptable levels of vibration are becomingmore stringent, just as the number and intensity of vibrationsources is increasing - for example, as machine operating speedsbecome faster, or cutting inserts in machine tools improve to allowheavier cuts.

Passive Vibration Isolation enables practitioners to make betterinformed and more effective choices when solving vibrationproblems.

Review of: Passive Vibration Isolation
Eugene I. Rivin
The American Society of Mechanical Engineers, New York, 2003
ISBN 079810187X

From the ASME Journal of Vibration and Acoustics (April2004)

The basic principles of vibration isolation have been known forcenturies and this topic is covered in every vibration text,although rarely thoroughly and not always from a realisticviewpoint.  Not since the publication of C. E. Crede's 1951classic "Vibration and Shock Isolation" has there appeared a bookthat treats all of the important aspects of this subject.  Thepresent book does this and more; it summarizes the current state ofthe technology and also discusses the salient characteristics ofthe available hardware and materials.

"Passive Vibration Isolation" presents a rather comprehensivetreatment of its subject matter, including analysis of basicsystems and their dynamic processes, criteria for isolation of manysensitive and vibration-producing items, materials employed inisolators, and the design of isolators and isolation systems. As its title implies, the book does not address active vibrationisolation.

The first of the book's four chapters deals with the basics ofisolation of rigid bodies, including consideration of all sixdegrees of freedom.  It presents the relevant equations, butdwells more extensively on simpler situations and practicalreal-life applications.  It also addresses two-stageisolation, nonlinearity effects, wave effects in isolators, andisolation in the presence of random excitation and of shockexcitation.

The second chapter begins with a discussion of isolation ofvibration-sensitive items.  It puts forth vibration limits fora number of instruments and machines and for some of these itemsalso lists the inertial properties one would need to design anisolation system.  It indicates the selection criteria forsuitable isolation systems and discusses the practical selection ofi