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Vibration isolation
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The BIPM watt balance: general concept
The principle of the watt balance
Present status
Coil suspension and electrostatic motor
Current source and voltage reference
Magnet
Magnetic field alignment
Optical systems to measure coil displacements
Dynamic alignment mechanism
Vibration isolation
Local gravitational acceleration cartography
Cryogenic watt balance: general concept
Cryogenic watt balance: present status
BIPM collaborators on the project
Recent publications
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Two concrete foundations, one for the watt balance (64 tones) and one for the gravimeter (10 tones) have been cast in the new watt balance laboratory. Each is isolated from the main floor of the building but remains in lateral contact with the earth to avoid low-frequency swinging motions (excited by surface Rayleigh waves). The horizontal and vertical rms velocities due to ground vibrations are 1 µm s-1 and 0.76 µm s-1, respectively, (for 0.003 Hz < f < 100 Hz). These values are ~5 and ~10 times lower, respectively, than the corresponding rms velocities measured at the present location of the watt balance apparatus in 2010, and on the optical table which supports the watt balance.

BIPM watt balance: new laboratory showing concrete foundations for vibration isolation

The laboratory which will soon house the watt balance



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