Contents: An Impedance Technique for Determining Low Frequency Environments; A Statistical Look at Modal Displacement Response to Sequential Excitations; On Determining the Number of Dominant Modes in Sinusoidal Structural Response; Lateral and Tilt Whirl Modes of Flexibly Mounted Flywheel Systems; Whole-Body Vibration of Heavy Equipment Operators; Research Related to the Expansion and Improvement of Human Vibration Exposure Criteria; Computer Aided Design of Passive Vibration Isolators for Airborne Electro-Optical Systems; Design of Turbine Blades for Effective Slip Damping at High Rotational Speeds; A Simple Low-Cost Technique for Measuring Material Damping Behavior; The Effects of Frequency, Amplitude, and Load on the Dynamic Properties of Elastomers; Liquid Spring Shock Isolator Modeling by System Identification; A generalized Derivate Model for An Elastomer Damper; Shock Response of Non-Linear Systems; Stability Analysis and Response Characteristics of Two-Degree of Freedom Nonlinear Systems; etc.

Through continued collaboration and the sharing of ideas, data, and results, the international community of researchers and practitioners has developed an understanding of many facets of the human response to vibration. At a time when the EU is preparing to adopt a directive on health risks arising from occupational exposure to vibration, Human Response to Vibration offers authoritative guidance on this complex subject. Individual chapters in the book examine issues relating to whole-body vibration, hand-arm vibration, and motion sickness. Vibration measurements and standards are also addressed. This book meets the needs of those requiring knowledge of human response to vibration in order to make practical improvements to the physical working environment. Written with the consultant, practitioner, researcher, and student in mind, the text is designed to be an educational tool, a reference, and a stimulus for new ideas for the next generation of specialists.