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Many common mistakes are made as a new engineer or technician using dynamics instrumentation such as accelerometers, pressure transducers, and strain gages. A lot of these are well known or documented and published. Working in a combined-environment testing facility such as AFRL’s Structural Dynamics Lab provides an additional layer of complexity by pushing instrumentation and data acquisition hardware to the limits of their operation parameters. This paper will discuss some of those lessons learned the hard way so that others can learn to not repeat them.
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Stefanski, M.S. (2020). Instrumentation and Data Acquisition Mistakes in a Structural Dynamics Facility and How to Learn from Them. In: Walber, C., Walter, P., Seidlitz, S. (eds) Sensors and Instrumentation, Aircraft/Aerospace, Energy Harvesting & Dynamic Environments Testing, Volume 7. Conference Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Mechanics Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-12676-6_13
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