A minimal mathematical Introduction to the Fundamentals of Random Vibration & Shock Testing
HALT, ESS & HASS
also Measurements, Analysis and Calibration
ISBN: 0-9741466-0-9

by Wayne Tustin

Equipment Reliability Institute (ERI) announces Wayne Tustin’s minimal-mathematics, minimal-theory hardbound text “Random Vibration & Shock Testing, Measurement, Analysis & Calibration”. This 444 4-color printed pages book also includes a CD-ROM with video clips and animations. It is corner protected inside a shrink-wrapping around the hard cover. We are accepting new orders. Click here to purchase a book (US$250 + shipping).

This book will be also used in ERI short courses in the USA and abroad, dealing with those topics. Courses also deal with HALT, ESS and HASS, as well as with vibration and shock measurements, analysis and calibration.

The text book
This minimal-mathematics minimal-theory text emphasizes test and measurement hardware and practice. Based in part upon Tustin’s lecture notes, it includes new material on digital techniques for spectrum analysis and for digital control of shakers for random, sine and shock testing.

The principle focus is on random vibration and MIL-STD-810F. The author shows the need for measurements and describes the most-used instruments for quantizing displacement, velocity, acceleration and force. He discusses instrument selection, usage and calibration. Most effective readouts, including spectrum analysis, are considered. He clarifies such electronic terminology as decibels and spectral density. To provide perspective, he briefly discusses relatively obsolete sinusoidal measurements and testing, also such peripheral subjects as torsional vibration, seismic simulation, acoustic (intense noise) as well as shock measurement and testing. Click here to view the book's table of contents.

For whom intended
The audience for this text includes vibration and shock test engineers and technicians, as well as designers of military and commercial electronic and other hardware that must survive rigorous tests and then later function reliably aboard aircraft, land and sea vehicles as well as in the office environment. Courses and text are needed because this preparation is no longer offered by universities to their engineering undergraduates.

The text is also intended for participants in Equipment Reliability Institute’s short courses. Many participants are environmental engineering specialists (needed per Military Standard 810F); test engineers and technicians who quantize in-service dynamic environments, later to develop and conduct random vibration tests; quality and reliability specialists, facilities engineers and product designers who interface with environmental testing laboratories; quality control and manufacturing personnel involved with 100% production stress screening of electronics; protective packaging designers who develop appropriate random vibration and shock tests; nuclear power engineers who conduct seismic simulation; plant maintenance personnel who monitor and analyze rotating machinery vibration.

Organizations wishing to conduct their own training classes, or whose engineering libraries need this text, may also purchase it by clicking here. Quantity discounts are available.

Free Sample of Chapter 1
An abbreviated Table of Contents is available below. Also you can request a sample of chapter 1 - "What are vibration and shock?", totally free, by completing this form and sending it to us.

You can also obtain more information by calling Wayne Tustin at (805) 564-1260 or sending him an e-mail.

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