When a slider-slideway system was excited by vibratory forces applied normally to the contact surface, it was found that at low sliding speeds the amplitude of stick-slip oscillation could be reduced to a negligible value. By exciting at one of the structural resonant frequencies of the system, the maximum value of the vibratory forces required was only a small percentage of the slideway load. The value of the coefficient of friction between the two surfaces was not reduced.
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