Garyl Miko T.

Rebojo October 9, 2019

BSME-5 ME 46 - EF

REFLECTION PAPER:

Vibration Engineering

Vibration Engineering is the the aggregate of methods and facilities for the generation of
mechanical oscillations (vibrations) in the frequency range from about 10 megahertz to 10
kilohertz, as well as means for controlling the vibrations, measuring and monitoring them, and
preventing harmful vibrations. Among the facilities in vibration engineering are vibration
machines; vibration test benches; instruments, apparatus, and equipment in which vibration is
deliberately produced to perform useful functions (such as compacting earth and concrete
mixtures or for testing); apparatus for controlling and measuring vibration; and ant vibration
engineering facilities such as devices for the prevention, suppression, damping, and insulation
of harmful vibration.

The following effects produced by vibration are utilized in vibration engineering: the creation of a
unilaterally directed motion of piece parts and free-flowing bulk cargo; the impact-vibration
insertion and recovery of pipes, sheet pilings, and piles; the pumping of liquids; the maintenance
of a circulatory motion of a material being processed or frequent collisions of solid elements in a
vibrating medium (vibration processing, milling, or mixing); multiple renewal and breakage of
contacts between particles of a vibrating medium (heat- and mass-exchange processes—
heating, drying, and cooling); the creation of intensive displacements of solid particles or the
particles in an emulsion relative to a liquid vibrating medium (extracting, dissolving, leaching,
and coloring); the transmission of impacts by the operating member to the medium being
vibrated (impact-vibration crushing, tamping, and cleaning of filter surfaces); and the reduction
of the resistance of a medium to the action of small, constant forces through the slippage of a
medium’s particles or layers (compacting, filling packages, cutting soil, and so on) caused by
vibration.

Vibrations generated by machines and equipment are disturbing. The need to reduce vibration
transmissions places increasing demands on machine engineers and operators. That is why
reduction of vibration even if the vibration is not seen on the surface when the apparatus for
testing the vibration, it is seen that it is still vibrating since this can harm the components of the
machine.