Besides the determination of mechanical characteristics, for practical applications these layers should also pass a few testing procedures concerning friction and wear comportment: test on simple friction pairs, test on isolated machine parts and tests on parts of the actual machine.
Another isolated machine gun was captured further north.
A long-standing rule of thumb in vibration isolation system design is to locate the isolators in such a way that the vibration modes of the isolated machine are decoupled.
The authors' analysis was based on the restrictive assumption that the isolated machine was modally damped.
So far, nm-level motion performance in 6 degrees of freedom (DoF) was realized through the application of an isolated machine architecture in combination with a hybrid stage concept, i.e., by stacking an active short stroke system providing fine adjustments on top of a passive long stroke system.
All the tests were performed under exactly the same conditions on the same isolated machine with following specifications: Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) Athlon 64 X 2 Dual Core Processor, 3000 megahertz (MHz) Central Processing Unit (CPU) and 2 Gigabyte (GB) of Random-Access Memory (RAM).
