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Course covers random vibration and shock testing

An Equipment Reliability Institute product story
Edited by the Engineeringtalk editorial team Oct 15, 2008

Wayne Tustin will speak at the 'Fundamentals of Random Vibration and Shock Testing, HALT, ESS, HASS (...)' course, meeting at DfR Laboratories, College Park, Maryland, 1-3 April 2009.

Subjects under discussion will include severe vibrations aboard rockets, spacecraft and satellites en route to orbit and the less severe but sometimes troublesome vibrations of military and commercial aircraft (especially helicopters), military and naval land and sea vehicles and automobiles.

Numerous testing laboratories, including DfR, utilise vibrating laboratory platforms (called shakers) to simulate those vibrations, proving that products will survive in-service vibrations.

Similarly, shock testing equipments prove that hardware will withstand mechanical shocks.

The April course will deal with accelerometers, used in measuring vibrations over the road, over the waves, in flight and during rocket launch and powered flight.

Accelerometer signals are usually telemetered to recording stations.

One use of the resulting data is generating programs to control shakers.

These are used to test parts of future vehicles.

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