How To Utilized Vibration Testing On Machines

By Randolph Z. Dutton


Some form of shaker is used to introduce the forcing function that thus makes vibration testing accessible. A device under test, or DUT, is attached to the end of the shaker. Servo hydraulic shakers are used for frequencies that are relatively low. High frequencies often utilize electrodynamics shakers for the examining. A control point or input found on the DUT side of a shaker typically acts as the control point for shaker acceleration, which has more than one fixture. Maximum vibration level, or resonance, is another reaction point that can be found on these tools, as well as minimum vibration level, or anti resonance.

Random and sine test are two typical vibration tests run on machines. Depending on the situation, both testing devices can be used at different times or at the same time. All frequencies displayed at one time, or random, can be tested to display any real world situations, for example examining the compression of a moving vehicle to the road. Most real world situations rotate around using numerous axes at a time, but even with this most often conduction on a single DUT axis to test.

Free vibration is when allowed to move freely; a mechanical system's initial input is set off to move around with freedom. Free vibration is like when a kid is on a swing and whoever holding them back is then lets them go. Also hitting a tuning fork and letting it ring is an case of free vibration. One or more natural vibrations and frequencies will fall below zero if a mechanical system is affected.

Whenever an constant motion or force is done to a mechanical system, forced vibrations will occur. When a truck crosses a road, it cause transportation vibration, which is one of many examples of forced vibration, such as the vibration that occurs during a earthquake in a building or the vibration caused by the unbalance of a working washing machine. The order of magnitude in a mechanical system is dependent on the amount of force or motion that is given when vibration or frequencies happen in machinery.

Vibration testing fundamentals are made and formed in the simple mass spring form. Even an car body, a complex structure, can be thought of as an example of a mass spring damper form. A simple harmonic oscillator is an instance of a model that serves as a mass spring damper. The behavior seen in the simple harmonic oscillators are often similar to others because of the RLC circuit.




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