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Voids Beneath Slabs-on-Ground: Using the impulse response test to verify adequate slab support

Introduction A concrete slab-on-ground is one of the most common of all floor types.  Slabs-on-ground are popular for many applications, especially in research facilities, where they usually provide the highest-quality vibration environment.  This is because they are stiff and uniformly supported, such that they do not exhibit the resonance characteristics of a suspended slab. As […]...
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Long-span truss structures for low-vibration environments

Historically, waffle slabs have been widely used in the process floor design in semiconductor production facilities.  In a less stringent vibration environment, concrete joist slab with stiffeners could be a suitable design option. In both of the two approaches, the effectiveness of vibration control in floor structures would be substantially reduced when the column span […]...
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Mode Selection for Footfall Analysis of Floors

Floor vibration due to footfall is of great importance in the design of buildings for vibration-sensitive research and production. The bulk of the predictive modeling methods for footfall involve the use of the “fundamental” resonance frequency which would be excited by the walker. In a complex structure, the analyst may be presented with a choice […]...
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Pellicle-Induced Distortions in Advanced Optical Reticles

William H. Semke, Lowell K. Siewert, Andrew R. Mikkelson, Eric A. Risius, Ning Tang, Roxann L. Engestad, Edward G. Lovell, Jun-Fei Zheng, Dao Giang, "Pellicle-Induced Distortions in Advanced Optical Reticles," Proceedings of SPIE 20th Annual BACUS Symposium on Photomask Technology, Vol. 4186, pp. 207-216, Monterey, CA, 2000....
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