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There is a wide variety of applications that subject systems to mechanical shock and vibration environments. How to best characterize those environments and generate the necessary system and component test specifications varies according to the nature of the underlying environment. The purpose of this paper is to provide the reader with an overview of some commonly used analysis techniques for a range of field environments including transportation and handling, aircraft carriage, and missile flight. The paper will also address statistical methods for defining the Maximum Predicted Environment and test control methods as they pertain to achieving the best possible system and component laboratory simulations.
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Cap, J.S. (2021). A Tutorial on Analysis Techniques for Deriving Mechanical Shock and Vibration Environmental Specifications from Field Data. In: Epp, D.S. (eds) Special Topics in Structural Dynamics & Experimental Techniques, Volume 5. Conference Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Mechanics Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-47709-7_6
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