Passive vibration isolation using a Roberts linkage

Review of Scientific Instruments

Volumn 74, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 3487-3491

  Garoi, F ^a,b   Winterflood, J ^a   Ju, L ^a   Jacob, J ^a   Blair, D G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR LASER   (Romania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRAVITATION; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; PENDULUMS; SEISMOLOGY; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS; VIBRATIONS (MECHANICAL);

ROBERTS LINKAGE;

WAVEGUIDE ISOLATORS;

EID: 0042768135     PISSN: 00346748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1583862     Document Type: Article

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