Vibrations emanating from machines can be detrimental to human health and well-being. Aside from that, vibrations increase safety hazards in machinery, buildings and installations. The primary goals of vibration isolation are to restrict the effects of vibrations on people to within reasonable limits and to protect sensitive apparatus and safety systems from becoming overloaded or suffering damage or breakdown caused by excessive stress from vibrations. Software ISOMAG 1.2, a further development of ITI-ISO (Fb 769) resp. ISOMAG (Fb 908, 943, 944) was created in research plan. The main purpose of the program is to design and optimize vibration isolation in machine and apparatus setups (secondary vibration protection). Interactive graphics are used in the program operation, model description, and data input and output. Linkage to a database permits rapid and certain acceptance of the characteristic quantities of the vibration isolators. The program supports the user in making a suitable selection and arrangement of vibration isolators. It calculates the quantities that are relevant for the evaluation - quantities such as characteristic frequencies; forces; mode shapes, velocities and accelerations; as well as transmissibility"s. It also monitors the observance of limit values. The user receives meaningful results with the lowest possible expenditure of preparatory work and model description. The current version 1.2 has been extended with respect to functionality and has been improved with respect to handling comfort. You now can set the time as well as the frequency range for the computation. New excitations were added, such as half-sine pulses and user-defined pulse shapes. Ground excitations can now be defined in terms of displacement, speed, and acceleration presets. This allows to model earthquake excitations too.

Please note:
The research report Fb 1014 only consists of the installation-CD. This CD contains also a PDF-file with the description of changes made resp. to version 1.1. That PDF-file is also available as a download:
Extensions and Improvements (PDF file, 688 KB)

It is recommended for new users to buy the research report Fb 944 "ISOMAG 1.1 - Design and calculation of the vibration isolation of machines and devices" with the complete documentation of ISOMAG 1.1.
Fb 944 "ISOMAG 1.1 - Design and calculation of the vibration isolation of machines and devices"