New instruments: capacitively coupled seismographs and accelerographs

The need of great magnifications and the usefulness of galvanometric recording and linear damping has almost made obsolete the exclusively mechanical recording instruments. Several manufacturers still make some strong-motion instruments which mechanically record on smoked paper. But, in these seismo...

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Autor: Merino y Coronado, J.
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:1962
País:México
Institución:UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO
Repositorio:Geofísica Internacional
Idioma:español
OAI Identifier:oai:revistagi.geofisica.unam.mx:article/1681
Acceso en línea:http://revistagi.geofisica.unam.mx/index.php/RGI/article/view/1681
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Sismos
Registro de temblores
Sismógrafos
Acelerógrafos
Earthquakes
Strong-motion instruments
Seismographs
Accelerographs
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Sumario:The need of great magnifications and the usefulness of galvanometric recording and linear damping has almost made obsolete the exclusively mechanical recording instruments. Several manufacturers still make some strong-motion instruments which mechanically record on smoked paper. But, in these seismographs the friction of the stylus on the paper is almost always very dificult to compute, and the damping system is never proportional to velocity, specially when the steady mass is great, since linear damping is impossible when viscous liquids and moving vanes submerged in them are used, or if they have pistons moving inside air-filled cylinders.