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Sometimes they serve as mounts for a concrete block, which provides further isolation. Pads or sheets of flexible materials such as elastomers, rubber, cork, dense foam and laminate materials. Elastomer pads, dense closed cell foams and laminate materials are often used under heavy machinery, under common household items, in vehicles and even ...
Seismic base isolation, also known as base isolation, [3] or base isolation system, [4] is one of the most popular means of protecting a structure against earthquake forces. [5] It is a collection of structural elements which should substantially decouple a superstructure from its substructure that is in turn resting on the shaking ground, thus ...
A shock mount or isolation mount is a mechanical fastener that connects two parts elastically to provide shock and vibration isolation. Isolation mounts allow equipment to be securely mounted to a foundation and/or frame and, at the same time, allow it to float independently from it.
An insulation monitoring device monitors the ungrounded system between an active phase conductor and earth.It is intended to give an alert (light and sound) or disconnect the power supply when the resistance between the two conductors drops below a set value, usually 50 kΩ (sample of IEC standard for medical applications).
Galvanic isolation is a principle of isolating functional sections of electrical systems to prevent current flow; no direct conduction path is permitted. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Energy or information can still be exchanged between the sections by other means, such as capacitive , inductive , radiative , optical , acoustic , or mechanical coupling.
An isolated ground (IG) (or Functional Earth (FE) in European literature) is a ground connection to a local earth electrode from equipment where the main supply uses a different earthing arrangement, one of the common earthing arrangements used with domestic mains supplies.
The costs of using base isolation for large structures have been found to be recouped in only a few years as insurance premiums are reduced so dramatically. Robinson also invented the Roball and the Roglider base isolation systems for medium-weight and low rise buildings, [ 2 ] and the Lead Extrusion Damper, among other seismic isolation devices.
this article is ok, but it doesnt explain the process of base isolation to the layman too well. someone should add an explanation, or maybe i will. Bigdan201 01:43, 20 January 2009 (UTC) I agree. Simplify, please. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 184.0.59.202 10:12, 12 March 2011 (UTC)