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：In order to avoid friction and scratching when conveying objects, a squeeze-film levitation prototype was designed to verify the feasibility. The modal shapes and the forced harmonic shapes of the prototype are obtained by an ANSYS coupled field computation with a ¼ symmetry model and the levitation capacity was assessed by the use of groups of simulation and physical testing. The simulation results show that the pure flexural and mixed flexural wave shapes with different wave number exist at specific frequencies. The amplitude of the central point of an aluminium plate having four piezo-electric discs glued to the bottom surface was simulated for a frequency spectrum. The experimental results confirm the theoretical results and the feasibility of the prototype, and also confirm that objects can be floated at several resonant frequencies under forced vibration conditions. The system provides the largest levitating capacity when both the piezo-electric disc and the plate resonances coincide.