Vibration and shock testing explained

An Equipment Reliability Institute product story

Edited by the Engineeringtalk editorial team May 17, 2006

Wayne Tustin's minimal-mathematics minimal-theory hardbound text "Random vibration and shock testing, measurement, analysis and calibration" is available now.

The Equipment Reliability Institute (ERI) has published Wayne Tustin's minimal-mathematics minimal-theory hardbound text "Random vibration and shock testing, measurement, analysis and calibration".

Applications include not only testing but also HALT, ESS, HASS, BSR and COTS.

The book goes far (440 pages) beyond Tustin's still widely used 1984 "Random vibration in perspective" text (200 pages).

Four-colour printing enhances the hundreds of photographs of equipment and setups.

A CD is included with many video clips and animations.

The audiences for ERI's short courses and for this text include vibration and shock test engineers and technicians, as well as designers of military and commercial electronic and other hardware that must survive rigorous tests and then later function reliably aboard aircraft, land and sea vehicles for perhaps 20 years, as well as in the office environment.

Purchasers of shakers, shock test machines etc also need this text.