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Calibrationbenchvibration testing&ValidationforBOSCH DiscussionBoard SoundIntensitypart4 FactFile VibrationPillowAlarm F1HyperData

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Foreword
Dear Customer The festivities of Light and Sound has just passed; crackers busted as all over the country; incidentally

this time around we had the opportunity to travel at least to 3 major cities during the season when the crackers were actually being busted; even though we were on customer assignments during this time, our team made sure that they collect a good number of Noise data at various locations around the Hotel area where they stayed. Many of us know that most of the crackers and fireworks are made in the state of Tamilnadu; but somehow this did not make its capital city Chennai to score the highest Noise Level due to cracker busting; in fact the city stood last out of the 3 cities we compared, Pune stood at number 1 position with 112dB (peak hold) of sound pressure level, Chandigarh stood 2nd in the listing with 108dB sound pressure value. As we did not had the Bangalore data for this year, we used the last years data for comparison purposes; the values were around 110dB and that makes it still the 2nd place relatively, however the overall feel at Bangalore this time around was that the overall bursting of cracker has come down, attributes could be for the damp weather or that people have become more conscious towards ill effects of higher noise levels and other pollution related issues. BOSCH Jaipur offered us the contract for vibration validation and certification of 60 units of calibration benches; our team successfully completed the task on strict time line working all through the week. A tailor made training program on Vibration, more specific to Whole Body Vibration is being conducted to the team of L&T, Coimbatore on 8th and 9th of November 2011, our association with L&T Bangalore is cordially getting extended to their Coimbatore facilities also, 2 months ago, we did a full test assignment on WBV to them and now we are assigned to run a training session to their team. I will be back with more updates on our vibration assignments with Indian Railways and other tasks in the next issue.

Warm Regards Krishna Balamurali krishna@nvdynamics.com

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Discussion Board

SOUND INTENSITY - PART 4

To refresh from our earlier discussion on Sound Intensity, it is the amount of energy flowing per unit time through a unit area that is perpendicular to the direction in which the sound waves are travelling.

How is Sound Intensity measured?

Sound intensity is the time-averaged product of the pressure and particle velocity. Sound Intensity can be measured with two closely spaced microphones, a Sound Intensity Probe.

Sound Intensity Probe

The probe has two microphones mounted face to face with a solid spacer in between. This arrangement has been found to have better frequency response and directivity characteristics than side-by-side, back-to-back or face-to-face without solid spacer arrangements. Three solid spacers define the effective microphone separation to 6, 12 or 50 mm. The choice of spacer depends on the frequency range to be covered. Directivity Characteristics The directivity characteristic for the sound intensity analyzing system looks (two-dimensionally) like a figure-of-eight pattern known as a cosine

characteristic. This is due to the probe and the calculation within the analyzer. Since pressure is a scalar quantity, a pressure transducer should have an equal response, no matter what the direction of sound incidence. In contrast, sound intensity is a vector quantity. With a twomicrophone probe, we do not measure the vector; however, we measure the component in one direction, along the probe axis. The full vector is made up of three mutually perpendicular components (at 90 to each other) one for each coordinate direction.
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Fact File
Vibrating Pillow Alarm Clock
The vibrating pillow alarm is an alarm that is specifically aimed at those who have hearing problems or are extremely deep sleepers and typically keep on sleeping when an alarm device is blaring next to them, failing to wake them up. These types of pillow are different in the sense that the vibration source is built into the pillow and instead of sending off an alarm; it vigorously shakes the pillow and wakes you up; this is a much more reliable & effective method of waking-up someone as it is very difficult to keep sleeping with the pillow (head) shaking. Advantage of this kind of waking up method is that it is individuals use as it will not disturb people sleeping around.

F1 - Hyper Data
A typical F1 car is made up of 80,000 components, even if it is assembled 99.9% correctly; it would still start the race with 80 things wrong!! F1 car can go from 0 to 160 kph & back to 0 in 4 seconds!! F1 drivers have prolonged exposure to high G forces and temperatures for over an hour. This results in an average F1 driver losing about 4kgs of weight after just one race. However he regains weight afterwards. The refueling system used in F1 can supply 12 liters of fuel per second. This means it would take just 4 seconds to fill the tank of an average 50 liter family car. TOP F1 pit crews can refuel and change tires in around 6 seconds. Normal car tires last 60 000 - 100 000 km. Racing tires are designed to last 90 - 120 km.

International guidelines prescribe noise exposure not to exceed 90dB (for a limited period of time); crackers used during festivities generates noise upto about 110dB, a typical ROCK concert produces about120dBofNoiseLevel,knowthatevery3dBincreaseis50%increaseinsoundpressurelevel!!

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