In order to study the characteristics of a rolling lobe air spring, a vertical stiffness analytical model is constructed based on thermodynamics and hydrodynamics. The merit of this vertical stiffness ...

Technology advances have steadily been implemented to improve the performance of commercial atomic force microscopes (AFMs) since the release of the first commercial model about 30 years ago. Now, the ...

Minus K Technology Inc. claims that the “negative stiffness” mechanism it has developed isolates objects from vibrations better than traditional solutions. Such techniques provide the stable platform ...

As the system was designed for use in a range of R&D environments, significant ambient vibrations could affect the data. He continued, "We needed to implement a vibration isolation component that ...

• Negative-stiffness isolators use mechanical components to keep vibrations from sensitive equipment. • Negative-stiffness systems’ 0.5-Hz resonant frequencies give them better low-frequency isolation ...

Negative-stiffness mechanical isolators can be used for achieving high-performance vibration isolation in a small microscope platform. It can be challenging to use microscopy for imaging materials, ...