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systems, working purely on the basis of flexural buckling. Its method of isolation
utilizes flexural instability to our advantage by centering a flexure cantilever rod
and a horizontal flexural member and attaching it to a spring system. This instability
creates negative stiffness at equilibrium position (horizontal level) which in turn
allows the payload (supported directly above the main spring system) to
oscillate up and down with extremely small amplitude
about the equilibrium position and low frequencies. The
effective stiffness of NSM based isolation devices can be
expressed as K=kskn , where ks is the spring stiffness and kn is the
Figure 1
vibration n=
k
m which is directly proportional to