A work shop is situated so near by railways that the vibrations of the ground become large and tangible considerablly everytime trains run on them.
It was a big problem how the vibrations affected the lathe which we were going to modify to a roll grinder. Here in the first report, we describe the results measured with a tromomenter, a vibrograph deviced by one of the writers, F. Kishinouye.
Summary:
(1) Although the vibrations were severely felt, the acceleration on the base due to them was only a tenth or hundredth as much as that in common work shops. (directions: X, Y, Z Fig. 2)
(2) It is desirable to increase the contact area between sliding parts of the machine and to make the natural frequency of the system large enough in order to let all parts vibrate together with the base.
(3) The operator of the machine tool must keep in mind not to touch the machine tool while working lest he shonld disturb the condition of vibrations.
(4) With a gap around the base (Fig. 4), the maximum acceleration due to vibrations was reduced to about a half.
(5) Because of the weakness of the ground, the vertical vibrations are hardly apparent when trains are running on railways far from there.Namely, comparatively large damping action of the groumd makes the vibration effective only when trains pass by the workshop.
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