Using purpose driven equipment like the CoCo-90X, an advanced battery powered dynamic signal analyzer that scales up to 16 input channels, IVC Technologies can collect more input channels than traditional walk around data collectors and can record time streams for several minutes or longer to observe and capture data from the entire raising and lowering of the bridge in one data set. With 16 channels, vibration data can be collected on the motors, gearboxes, and sheave bearings synchronously. This both reduces the overall collection time and increases the ability to properly access the synchronous data.
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NASA’s response to Crystal Instruments addressed items NASA found beneficial, items NASA wanted changed, and items NASA benchmark tested on the prototype units. The Crystal Instruments prototype GRS systems were delivered according to a contractual agreement and performed well when tested for each listed specification with some areas of improvement.
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Crystal Instruments (CI) recently attended the International Modal Analysis Conference (IMAC) held during the week of February 7–10, 2022 at the Rosen Plaza hotel in Orlando Florida. The conference was an all-around enjoyable experience, and it was good to be back in person to interact with and discuss the on-going work folks are pursuing in modal analysis.
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Trade shows are back and Crystal Instruments is enthusiastically attending. At each show Crystal Instruments highlighted the advantages of working with an innovative manufacturer like ourselves. Contact our team to discuss your project.
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Come see our vibration controllers and dynamic signal analyzers in person and learn the benefits of Crystal Instruments test technology aimed at the most challenging testing requirements.
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Structural measurements on infrastructure are growing in demand given the aging buildings, bridges, and dams that populate countries around the world. Structural measurements are not the only measurements needed for aging infrastructure, but they do play a role. In the structural measurement category, Crystal Instruments offers products to measure and analyze data for large structure measurements like the measurements done on the Vieux Emosson Gravity Dam.
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Watch Darren Fraser’s Multi-resolution Overview presentation from this year’s ESTECH 2021 conference. Viewers will receive a brief review followed by several practical application examples. The Multi-Resolution function is patented by Crystal Instruments.
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On August 26, 2020, NASA selected Crystal Instruments to provide data acquisition equipment for the measurement of low frequency sonic boom events generated by one of their newest and most advanced aircraft, the X-59. The X-59 Quiet SuperSonic Technology (QueSST) aircraft is a research plane designed to study the effects of sonic boom events for companies developing supersonic aircraft for commercial travel.
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Vibration testing of automotive components helps manufacturers ensure both a sound design and improved reliability. The current growing demand for electric vehicles has placed battery testing into the spotlight and as a result, attention for vibration tests of electric vehicle batteries has increased.
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Everything goes well with pizza, or so it seems, and the list of things that go well with pizza now include vibration test equipment, thanks to companies like Zume Pizza. Zume Pizza in Mountain View, California, has innovated pizza delivery; they bake each pie in their mobile kitchens and are able to move those kitchens to the demanded location (i.e. sporting events, concerts, schools). The pizza is delivered to your doorstep moments after it comes out of the oven.
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The Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) held the 2019 Noise and Vibration Conference in Grand Rapids Michigan this year. The conference, which is a biennial event, took place from June 10th to the 13th and drew roughly 1,000 engineers focused on NVH (Noise, Vibration and Harshness) and sound quality measurements. Crystal Instruments was proud to take part in sponsoring the conference this year.
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Crystal Instruments (CI) is proud to exhibit and help support Silicon Valley’s SmallSat Symposium. The symposium will be held at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California. This year is anticipated to be a banner year with over 800 participants expected to attend. Organizations and companies from across the country and around the world will hear from 120 speakers focused directly on the small sat industry.
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Developers of driverless and driver assisted instrumentation have many situations requiring perfect hardware performance. One such situation that has become evident to both Crystal Instruments (CI) and Sentek Dynamics is the increased requirement for vibration and shock testing of sensing elements used in autonomous vehicles, including: lidar, video cameras, radio cameras, and GPS computers. CI and Sentek witnessed this trend first hand while working closely with autonomous vehicle designers to provide the very best in vibration testing equipment of autonomous driving instrumentation.
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