Webinar 43 – Two-degree-of-freedom System, Two-stage Isolation

Slides: webinar_43_two_dof_systems.pptx & Alternate Link Audio/Visual File: NESC Academy Two-stage Isolation – Recommend viewing in Firefox with Sliverlight Plugin * * * Matlab script: Vibrationdata Signal Analysis Package * * * Reference Paper: two_stage_isolation.pdf & Alternate Link * * * See also:  Two-degree-of-freedom Systems * * * -… Read more

Webinar 42 – Shock Special Topics

1.Accidental Drop Shock 2.Half-Sine Shock on Drop Tower 3.Half-Sine Shock on Shaker Table 4.Waveform Reconstructions via Wavelets Slides: webinar_42_shock_topics.pptx Audio/Visual: NESC Academy Shock Special Topics – Recommend viewing in Firefox with Sliverlight Plugin * * * Matlab script: Vibrationdata Signal Analysis Package Data Sample: shaker_halfsine.txt -… Read more

Continuum Mechanics

I am taking a class in continuum mechanics at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. Here are some notes: Derivation of the Epsilon-Delta Relationship:  epsilon_delta.pdf Continuum Mechanics Formulas (Kronecker delta, permutation symbol, dot product, cross-product, etc.) :  cm_formulas.pdf Del Operator Proofs (divergence, curl, cross-product, etc.):… Read more

Mars Curiosity Rover Wheels, Low Cycle Fatigue Cracks

Curiosity is a car-sized robotic rover exploring Gale Crater on Mars as part of NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory mission (MSL). Curiosity was launched from Cape Canaveral on November 26, 2011 aboard the MSL spacecraft and landed on Aeolis Palus in Gale Crater on Mars on… Read more

Pyrotechnic Shock Propagation

The following is based on a description from Dennis Kern, NASA/JPL, which Isam Yunis, NASA Langley, referenced in a shock presentation. Shocks travel through structure as a combination of propagating waves and vibration response, with the vibration response concentrated more in lower frequencies and the… Read more

Lord, I Would Follow Thee

Lord, I Would Follow Thee 1. Savior, may I learn to love thee, Walk the path that thou hast shown, Pause to help and lift another, Finding strength beyond my own. Savior, may I learn to love thee– (Chorus) Lord, I would follow thee. 2.… Read more

85th Shock & Vibration Symposium, October 26-29, 2014

I will present two tutorials sessions at the Shock & Vibration Symposium. Here are the slides: Shock Response Spectra & Time History Synthesis SAVE_conference_2014_Irvine_shock.pptx Rainflow Cycle Counting for Random Vibration Fatigue Analysis SAVE_conference_2014_Irvine_fatigue_revA.pptx * * * Here is the Matlab GUI multi-function signal analysis package:… Read more

Webinar 36 – Non-Gaussian Random Fatigue and Peak Response

PowerPoint Slides: webinar_36_fatigue_nonGaussian_random.pptx Audio/Visual File NESC Academy Non-Gaussian Random Fatigue and Peak Response – Recommend viewing in Firefox with Sliverlight Plugin * * * References: Rainflow Fatigue Posts Generating Random Time Histories with User-specified Skewness & Kurtosis * * * Matlab script: Vibrationdata Signal Analysis Package *… Read more