Sentence examples for seismic mass from inspiring English sources

Most existing designs are based on electrostatic forces acting directly on the seismic mass, or on a thermal or piezoelectric displacement of the seismic mass.

The two TVAs are composed by a seismic mass mounted on a axial spring.

The force sensitive part is a macroscopic horizontal rigid platform used as a floating seismic mass.

The accelerometer consists of a 1.2 mg seismic mass, supported by four 8 μm thick spokes.

The analysis starts from a stand-alone absorber, emulating seismic mass type harvesters.

The model encloses angular momentum of the seismic mass, squeeze-film air damping, inertial force and supporting force (acting at the cantilever-root) during the collision between the seismic mass and the over-range stopping bumpers.

Resonance, frequency and sensitivity measurements were made for two different seismic masses.

A wire-cut two-parallel-plate cantilever and a silicon stage suspended by a monolithically integrated spring have been investigated as seismic masses.

As compared with other pushover analysis procedures, the main advantage of the proposed procedure is that the effects of higher modes on the lateral displacement demands are lumped into a single invariant lateral force distribution that is proportional to the total seismic masses at the floor and roof levels.

With knowledge of the displacement profile at maximum response; Δ i, the seismic masses; m i, and storey heights; h i, the equivalent SDOF design displacement; Δ d, effective mass; m e, and effective height; h e, can be calculated as shown in Eqs.

With the chosen geometric properties, design earthquake load and seismic effective mass is kept constant for model frames which is thought to be convenient for comparison purposes.