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D.H. Trepess

Abstract

A shock damage potential approach to shock testing D.H. Trepess Mechanical Subject Group, School of Engineering, Coventry University, Coventry CVl 5FB, UK A shock damage (excitation capacity) approach to shock testing has oeen undertaken. Shock tests usually specified are difficult if not impossible to implement and are generally not representative of shock environments. The experimental and theoretical work described here outlines how a transient waveform can be weighed so to poses similar damage potential properties as that possessed by another transient excitation. The benefits offered by this technique is to permit the application of the equivalence of a shock environment, where the specified shock environment is difficult to directly implement. 1 Introduction It is essential that electronic and mechanical equipment undergo shock tests to investigate their shock durability. Equipment may, during their lifetime experience shock motion. To avoid in service equip

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