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Technical Articles and Resource Materials
in Dynamic Testing

recommended reading for students in TTi courses
116, 117, 142, 157-5 and 194

Technical Articles

• Articles hosted on TTiedu.com
  • Obtaining Total Motion from Spectral Plots
  • Use and Abuse of Test Time Exaggeration Factors by George Hieber
  • Test Time Exaggeration Factor
  • Accelerated Vibration Testing—Proceed with Caution
  • A Low-Class Fixture Can Spoil a High-Class Vibration Test
• Articles by TTi instructor Strether Smith
  • A Close Look at the Measurement of Shock Data—Lessons Learned
  • A Commentary of the State of Engineering Education (Editorial)
  • The Interpolation of Sparse Time History Data
  • A Proposed Method to Standardize Shock Response Spectrum (SRS) Analysis
  • Techniques for the Normalization of Shock Data
  • Test Data Anomalies—When Tweaking’s OK
  • Why Shock Measurements Performed at Different Facilities Don’t Agree
  • More Strether Smith articles and LabView Demo Programs
• Articles on the Internet
  • Technical papers at Endevco (free registration required)
    Sample titles: Accelerometer Selection by Application, by Anthony Chu
    Instrumentation For Shock And Vibration Measurements by R. R. Bouche
    Transducers For Dynamic Measurements by R. R. Bouche
    Basics of Shock and Vibration Theory (in 2 parts), by Dale Pennington
    Calibration of Shock and Vibration Pickups by R. R. Bouche
  • Force-Limited Vibration at JPL, Terry Scharton, ITEA Journal
  • Design Optimization of a Vibration Exciter Head Expander, Ballinger, Peterson and Brown, Sound and Vibration
  • Why you can't ignore those vibration fixture resonances, by Peter Avitabile, Sound and Vibration
  • Experimental Modal Analysis, Peter Avitabile, Sound and Vibration
  • The Politics of Accelerated Stress Testing, Edmond L. Keyser, Eugene R. Hnatek and Mark H. Roettgering, Sound and Vibration
  • Squeak and Rattle -- State of the Art and Beyond, Farokh Kavarana and Benny Rediers, Sound and Vibration
  • Changing the Effective Mass to Control Resonance Problems, Richard Smith, Sound and Vibration
  • Understanding the Physics of Electrodynamic Shaker Performance, George Fox Lang and Dave Snyder, Sound and Vibration
  • Recent System Developments for Multi-Actuator Vibration Control, Marcos A. Underwood, Tony Keller, Sound and Vibration

Reference Material

• Fundamentals of Signal Analysis
  Agilent's classic application note on Signal Analysis
• Measuring Vibration, B&K’s useful little booklet.
• Motion Mountain: Free Online Physics Text

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