2. Sectors concerned
Since vibrations by their very nature affect any object, vibratory techniques have been applied to mechanical sciences, civil engineering, transportation and so on. There is thus a diversity of approaches (one could say engineering cultures and technologies) aimed at controlling vibrations, possibly at generating them, more often at isolating them, or better still at reducing them at source, with a view to attenuating these vibrations as well as the noise and nuisance they generate.
Conversely, the application of vibrations to an object can also be used to characterize its elastic properties for testing and analysis, conformity control or even continuous monitoring of a transformation process.
The range of frequencies that can be analyzed is extremely broad:
Extremely low frequencies (EBF)...
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Norms and standards (non-exhaustive list)
The Association française de normalisation (AFNOR) provides French and foreign standards.
French standards (AFNOR and UTE – Union technique de l'électricité) may or may not correspond to ISO (International Organization for Standardization) and IEC (International Electrotechnical Commission) standards. The degree of conformity, which is specified, is: identical, equivalent...
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Directive 2006/42/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 May 2006 on machinery, and amending Directive 95/16/EC (recast) (OJ L. 157 of 9 June 2006, pp. 24-86)
Directive 98/37/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 June 1998 on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to machinery (OJ L. 207, 23 July 1998, pp. 1-46).
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