The Vibration Institute’s Annual Training Conference is often referred to as offering ‘second to none’ education in vibration analytics and is considered the place to be for vibration and condition monitoring experts. As such, it has also become an excellent networking opportunity for industry elites, manufacturers, and incoming young professionals. With today’s ever accelerating changes in technology, beyond networking, it is also crucial to stay up to date on vibration analysis techniques with the most capable and usable equipment.
Read moreCenter of Operation and Monitoring of 12 or More Shaker Systems with API
Manufacturing plants often require controlled vibrations on various parts of the plant to run for several hours, days, or even weeks at a time. In some cases, continuous operation is required.
At these facilities, the affordable down time is limited to a few hours in a week. The continuous controlling and monitoring of independently running systems is another significant challenge.
Read moreMounting Strain Gage on UUT
Applying strain gages for measurement may sound daring, but it’s a lot simpler than it sounds. In this article, we will focus on key points of strain gage placement technique. It is important that the strain gage performs well and gives an accurate reading. This means the attachment point must be performed correctly to receive good results. As a result, the strain gage setup process requires a precise and correct following of directions. Crystal Instruments’ Spider-80SG is capable of calibrating and resetting measurement values prior to taking measurement. This is a standard step for all strain measurements to eliminate any offset before measurement starts.
Read morePost Process Data Acquired and GPS-stamped by the CoCo-80X
There are often instances where it may be beneficial to add location information to your acquired data. With the CoCo-80X, these GPS signals can be acquired simultaneously with other measurements -- there is no need to carry a separate GPS device. The CoCo-80X’s large LCD and touch-screen interface makes it easy to use the analyzer and acquire data. All measurements are combined into a single test file, so there’s no need to manage files.
Read moreYou have ten fingers, but that doesn’t mean the input range has to be 10 volts!
I’ve always wondered why some instruments in the market set their hardware input range to 10 V. Perhaps the hardware designer for these instruments possessed ten fingers and chose 10 V out of convenience. I can imagine their bosses eagerly approving the use of 10 V as well, because they too have ten fingers!
Read moreEDM Modal Operates on Spider System with Hundreds of Channels
EDM Modal is a complete Modal Testing and Modal Analysis suite for Experimental Modal Analysis (EMA). It works on the verified Spider hardware systems, ranging from several channels up to hundreds of channels. EDM Modal is developed based upon the sophisticated technologies of modern modal analysis theory and technique. With its intuitive controls and powerful features, EDM Modal is the ultimate tool for modal analysis applications.
Read moreSynchronous Data Acquisition Across A Large Structure or Space
Synchronizing Spider-20Es to a High Channel Count System
Dynamic data acquisition and machine monitoring in factories and plants often require data to be acquired synchronously at various parts of the plant or a factory. Some big machines, especially in the aerospace industry also require data to be acquired at different areas synchronously.
Breakout Box Terminal Guide for Strain Gage Measurement on Spider-80SG
A. Introduction
Strain gages setup on our Spider-80SG is one of the most common questions we received. The Spider-80SG is designed to be used with strain gages; wonderfully, software interface is still within the same easy-to-use and intuitive platform of our EDM software. The connection to Spider-80SG breakout box is the final piece of the puzzle and it is a lot simpler than it looks.
SAE Noise-Con 2017, Sponsored & Attended by Crystal Instruments
What does an automotive engineer, electric engineer, and an airline acoustics engineer have in common? They all had the amazing idea to attend the Crystal-Instruments-sponsored 2017 SAE Noise and Vibration Conference and Exhibition in Grand Rapids, Michigan in June 2017.
Read moreCoCo-80 No. 26. and the 2017 Crystal Instruments Catalog
I recently received a returned CoCo-80 unit from a customer located in India. This customer decided to upgrade their unit to the newer CoCo-80X model. The returned CoCo-80 unit was manufactured and shipped in 2007. This particular unit that was returned to us was the 26th CoCo-80 unit that Crystal Instruments produced.
Read moreVirgin Orbit uses Crystal Instruments' Spider-80X for Shock Response Analysis
Shock Response Spectrum (SRS) Analysis is one of the most often-used methods in Shock and pyro-shock analysis. Recently, Virgin Orbit, a newly formed company under Virgin Groups that target at advanced small satellite business, started to use Crystal Instruments’ Spider-80X to acquire the shock vibration and SRS analysis.
Read moreSentek Dynamics ‐ Crystal Instruments and Small Satellites
The phrase “Good things come in small packages” is true! Small satellites, also known as CubeSats, are being launched at a record pace with the successful February 15, 2017 launch of 104 satellites of which 88 were Planet Labs’ Dove satellites collectively known as Flock‐3p, aboard an Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) rocket from the Satish Dhawan Space Center in Sriharikota, India. This amazing launch followed the successful June 22, 2016 launch of 12 Planet Labs’ Flock‐2p satellites from the Satish Dhawan Space Center. These spacecraft are shoebox‐sized satellites placed into lower Earth orbit to provide imaging data.
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