Aircraft ground vibration test instrumentation system
Abstract
The Structural Vibration Branch (FIBG) of the Air Force Wright Aeronautical Laboratories is conducting an in-house Ground Vibration Test (GVT) on a full scale F-16 aircraft located inside FIBG's Vibration Aeroelastic facility at Wright-Patterson AFB OH. To measure 120 accelerometer signals simultaneously as required by the GVT, FIBG has designed and fabricated in-house a complete data acquisition system to measure and condition all the required transducer signals. This paper describes the design, configuration, evaluation and calibration of the GVT instrumentation system.
- Publication:
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Range Commanders Council Twelfth Transducer Workshop
- Pub Date:
- 1983
- Bibcode:
- 1983rcc..work..552T
- Keywords:
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- Accelerometers;
- Calibrating;
- Data Acquisition;
- Excitation;
- F-16 Aircraft;
- Transfer Functions;
- Vibration;
- Computer Programs;
- Dynamic Response;
- Dynamic Structural Analysis;
- Signal Processing;
- Transducers;
- Instrumentation and Photography