PERFORMANCE OF ULTRA-LOW FREQUENCY PASSIVE VERTICAL VIBRATION ISOLATION SYSTEM WITH REVERSE PENDULUM

A novel long period passive vertical vibration isolator constructed by mounting reverse pendulums on two pairs of torsion springs is presented. By theoretical analysis and numerical calculation, it is shown that the isolator can achieve much longer resonant period due to gravitational positive feedback and is smaller in size than the current torsion spring isolators with the same geometric parameters.