Environmental Microvibration Analysis Method for Vibration Isolation Research in High-Precision Laboratories

Abstract

Environmental microvibrations, often originating from unidentified sources, pose a significant challenge for predicting and controlling their complex wave fields, potentially leading to measurement errors of sensitive instruments in high-precision laboratories and impacting the accuracy of experimental outcomes. Therefore, investigating effective control measures for environmental microvibrations under passive conditions is key to addressing such engineering issues. This paper presents a finite element analysis method tailored to address environmental microvibrations in the absence of apparent sources. This method involves obtaining the vibration time history at specific ground surface points through field measurements and combining the Rayleigh wave velocity attenuation character with depth at the center frequencies of one-third octave bands within the 1–100 Hz frequency range; the vibration time history at any depth in the soil is calculated. These calculated vibrations are then applied as input loads to the corresponding nodes on one boundary of the foundation–soil model, serving as the source of environmental microvibrations. The predicted results are compared with measured data and the empirical point source input method, indicating that this approach is more precise and efficient, providing valuable reference for the prediction and analysis of environmental microvibrations. In addition, utilizing this method, the study examines the effects of pile foundation parameters such as the pile length, burial depth, and concrete baseplate thickness on the vibration isolation performance of environmental microvibrations, providing guidance for designing pile foundation isolation.

Keywords

• high-precision laboratory
• environmental microvibrations
• Rayleigh wave
• pile foundation
• foundation vibration isolation