How Much Vibration is Acceptable?

 

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Due to the large variety of instrument components and designs, equipment sensitivity to vibration is a subject of continuing research. So the question of “How much vibration is acceptable” is not precisely known.  Equipment manufacturers typically strive to achieve specified performance tolerances in a benign or noncritical development laboratory environment.  It is the end user’s responsibility to provide a “safe operating vibration environment”at the point of installation.  There are limited available data on
the ability of various classes of equipment to withstand vibration.  These data have been compiled from various surveys and are presented in Figure 6.1 to represent proposed safe operational vibration levels for a variety of sensitive instruments. Each equipment line represents an acceptable envelope of rms vibration amplitude vs frequency which is not to be exceeded.  The “allowable” vibration envelopes in Figure 6.1 have been proposed by various engineering committees for standardization by the International Standards Organizations (ISO) to supplement their existing standards.