Vibration and Acceleration Sensing Reference Materials

Description: A knock sensor, also known as a detonation sensor, is a crucial component in internal combustion engines designed to detect abnormal combustion, often referred to as "knocking" or "pinging." This ...

Description: An accelerometer sensor is a kind of sensor that is a device used to measure acceleration, which is the rate of change of velocity of an object. It is commonly found in various electronic devices such ...

Description: Practical Vibration Control Solutions for Precision Observation High-magnification microscopes can be highly sensitive to even small amounts of vibration. ...

Description: In vibration testing, engineers often use the terms "mini shaker" and "vibration exciter" interchangeably. While both devices generate controlled vibration, they are fundamentally different in ...

Description: As train speeds continue to increase, vibration and noise control inside railway vehicles is becoming increasingly important. ...

Description: A complete guide to predictive maintenance, this article covers the benefits, common challenges, how it works, technology options on the market, and how to implement it. ...

Description: In many cases, compressor vibration does not remain around the machine itself. Vibration can spread through floors and support structures and affect surrounding areas inside the facility. ...

Description: Have you ever experienced issues such as: Measurement results that vary each time, Poor repeatability, Results that change depending on the environment? In many cases, the cause is not the equipment ...

Description: In some cases, vibration can actually become stronger even when rubber sheets are used for isolation. This does not necessarily mean that the material itself is poor. In many cases, the issue is ...

Description: Energy exploitation techniques have drastically evolved in the last few years, moving from conventional and vertical drilling to sophisticated techniques capable of reaching deeper, multi-reservoir ...

Description: The real-time structural health monitoring of bridges demands non-contact, high-precision measurement of deflection and vibration under operational loads. Leveraging the advanced capabilities of the ...

Description: Test and measurement professionals in automotive, aerospace, and industrial sectors are redefining their standards for accuracy, stability, and reliability. MEMS DC accelerometers, especially those ...

Description: When it comes to accurate, reliable motion sensing, not all accelerometers are built the same. Many industries, including aerospace, defense, and structural health monitoring, require sensors that ...

Description: Semi-truck manufacturers are under constant pressure to deliver quieter, smoother, and more durable vehicles while also avoiding costly failures in the field. Vibration, if left unchecked, ...

Description: Aerospace systems are expected to operate within extremely narrow tolerances, often in conditions far outside the scope of standard mechanical environments. To meet this expectation, engineering teams ...

Description: Accelerometers play a foundational role in how modern vehicles are tested, validated, and improved, particularly as demands for safety, ride quality, and design agility continue to rise. These sensors ...

Description: RTCA/DO-160 defines types of vibration and shock testing methods. This list of FAQs provides guidance on the categories, procedures, and testing details outlined in the standard. The applicable ...

Description: From validating product design and establishing operational limits to qualifying equipment per customer or industrial standards, vibration testing is a valuable tool for manufacturers, designers, and ...

Description: Predictive maintenance using ifm IO-Link sensors ...

Description: Machine vibration is commonly caused by imbalanced, misaligned, loose, or worn-out parts. These vibrations can lead to further damage if left unaddressed. By continuously monitoring key components ...

Description: In the realm of product testing and quality assurance, vibration test machines represent a critical tool, tasked with ensuring that components and systems can withstand real-world environmental ...

Description: This article explores integrating AI into high-frequency vibration tables by examining its impact on smart control, real-time data analysis, and multi-axis coordination while questioning its full ...

Description: This paper provides an in-depth analysis of high-frequency vibration tables for environmental testing, emphasizing dynamic performance, load compensation, and advanced control strategies to enhance ...

Description: This study analyzes high-frequency vibration tables for reliability testing, focusing on multi-axis coordination, smart control, and advanced data acquisition. Significant performance improvements ...

Description: Ommatidia LiDAR’s Q1 and Q2 Laser RADAR systems offer a revolutionary approach to Ground Vibration Testing by enabling non-contact, high-resolution measurements of structural vibrations. Unlike ...

Description: SDI’s analog ±2G surface mount accelerometers, as well as all SDI modules built with them, have the low noise performance necessary for measurement accuracy in tilt applications. In the ...

Description: All Silicon Designs DC accelerometers use MEMS capacitive sensing technology and respond to the Earth's gravity. This makes it very easy to verify the calibration because they will show approximately ...

Description: In industries like automotive and manufacturing, testing for noise and vibration is essential for quality and safety. But how do you measure vibrations without touching the object? One method is laser ...

Description: The semiconductor manufacturing process is extremely sensitive to vibrations, whether they originate internally from sources like foot traffic, fans, and pumps, or externally from factors such as ...

Description: The air compressor plays a crucial role in the plastic injection molding process, providing compressed air to drive the movement, mixing, and molding of plastics. From plastic melting to mold filling, ...

Description: Since 1983, Silicon Designs has been an industry pioneer in the design, development and manufacture of MEMS accelerometers and chips with DC response, integral amplification, and simple analog output. ...

Description: Learn about many of the less-frequently discussed accelerometer specifications and how, when, and why they impact the quality of your data - long after the vibration sensor has been commissioned. ...

Description: Machine vibration is commonly caused by imbalanced, misaligned, loose, or worn-out parts. These vibrations can lead to further damage if left unaddressed. By continuously monitoring key components ...

Description: What is a vibration sensor? ...

Description: Modern vibration data collectors are typically equipped with uni-axial and tri-axial sensors. The purpose of this paper is to provide the benefits and advantages of an intelligent & smart ...

Description: The horizontal pump is one of the most rugged and versatile types of process equipment. This particular pump has a unique skid design, intake, and a US patented thrust chamber (HTC) that can be ...

Description: The centrifugal pump is one the most versatile types of process equipment for all industries. Compared with other type of pumps (e.g., reciprocating and rotary pumps), centrifugal pumps are smaller ...

Description: A conveyor belt is the carrying medium of a belt conveyor system. A belt conveyor system consists of two or more pulleys (sometimes referred to as drums), with an endless loop of carrying medium - the ...

Description: The Trivibe sensor can be mounted on the engine block, center-lined to the machine casing. The green blocks below indicate where the sensors should be mounted when monitoring for engine block ...

Description: IMPORTANT Battery Powered Vibration Sensors CONSIDERATIONS when making a choice. The typical specification for a battery-powered vibration sensor is 3 years of battery life at 25°C (75°F) If ...

Description: The fluctuating pressures that act on the surfaces of flight vehicles due to propulsion systems and movable surface flows tend to induce oscillatory motions of the fuselage surfaces. These vibrations ...

Description: Insights from something as simple as affixing a vibration sensor to a bridge and collecting data on one passing train can start the process of building up the data needed to implement a ...

Description: Keegan Franks explored how accelerometers can be used in directional drilling to determine properties of surrounding rock based upon an analysis of the vibrations. ...

Description: No matter how well designed, an instrumentation system can only correctly condition and record signals from transducers if these signals are transmitted with fidelity via the cable interfacing the ...

Description: For engineers who need to analyze shock and vibration data, Python can be a very powerful tool. But getting started with Python and understanding its relationship with libraries and IDEs can be a ...

Description: Today's manufacturing industry is a sensor-driven world. In any manufacturing process, there is no precision without feedback. Today's finished products are examined with speed and precision made ...

Description: What type of shock and vibration environment does the human wrist experience when playing sports? ...

Description: A new scheme to achieve the high-precision Ultrasonic Metal Welding of Lithium-ion battery cell by monitoring the process through a compact laser vibration sensor from OmniSensing Photonics LLC. ...

Description: An advanced CPU cooling fan quality testing system was developed using compact laser vibrometer sensor from OmniSensing Photonics. ...

Description: Showed how the MV-H series laser vibration sensor can be used to characterize the ultrasonic transducers ...

Description: bluShift wanted to understand how much the final version of their hybrid rocket engine vibrated. Using an enDAQ sensor, bluShift was able to get a clearer understanding of vibration in their rocket ...

Description: Given a vibration signal, an engineer may know how to do some exploratory analysis in the time or frequency domain (see Vibration Analysis Basics), but this requires a human to manually look at the ...

Description: This post was written in partnership with Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. Using an enDAQ sensor from our Unit Donation Program, Keegan Franks explored how accelerometers can be used in ...

Description: The US Navy had a challenge: the crew of a C-2A Greyhound was reporting excessive vibration in the cockpit, yet no abnormal vibrations were being detected by the engine's vibration monitoring system. ...

Description: High-temperature piezoelectric sensors are commonly utilized in harsh applications that exceed the standard operating parameters of internal impedance converting electronics packages, typically ...

Description: Using enDAQ sensors, Momentum Engineering Corp. measured the deceleration rates of eight different bicycles during brake-to-stop tests with a single person riding at the same location to determine how ...

Description: Thermocouples are sensors that measure temperature. Their applications range from industrial manufacturing and experimental settings to the meat thermometer you use at home. They are often used ...

Description: There are a lot of wireless vibration monitoring systems out there! But finding all of these options available to a vibration analyst can be time-consuming. In this blog post we have consolidated all ...

Description: You can't get far in vibration testing and analysis without running across and benefiting from a power spectral density (PSD). PSDs, as the name implies, are used to analyze the vibration environment ...

Description: Vibration measurement can be achieved with a variety of vibration analysis and monitoring equipment. I've worked (and continue to work) as an engineer building my own vibration measurement systems and ...

Description: deciphering-accelerometer-datasheets Why, why, why are accelerometer datasheets so confusing? There's a reason. Accelerometer companies, understandably, try to position their products in the best ...

Description: You know you need an accelerometer; but how do you select the right type for your application? You're not alone if you don't know much about the different types of accelerometers and how they can ...

Description: What's faster, MATLAB or Python? There are a lot of forums out there comparing the two programming languages; but none seemed to give actual computation times for real analysis. This post will. In ...

Description: Gathering vibration data can be a complicated and laborious task, analyzing that data shouldn't also always have to be so complicated! In my last post I covered 6 programming options for vibration ...

Description: FFT, PSD and spectrograms don't need to be so complicated. Once you understand the basics they can really help with your vibration analysis. In this post I'll try to provide the right mix of theory ...

Description: AKE392B-Wireless three-axis accelerometer sensor series products is RION company imported the Switzerland patented technology to produce for using widely, suitable for vibration testing, impact ...

Description: With traditional Mil-Spec qualifications growing out-of-date, newer, more comprehensive methods of testing vibration are gaining awareness and acceptance. ...

Description: In the world of acceleration, a common topic is that of modal analysis. Within this topic, applications can range from the study of bridges as vehicles roll across them, to the qualification of ...

Description: features ? three axis (X?Y?Z) ? output interface:RS232;RS485;TTL ? power supply:9-36V ? anti-impact:2000G ? working temperature: -40°C ~ +85°C ? store temperature: -55°C ~ +100°C ? size: ...

Description: only a small part of the frequency range between zero and the Nyquist frequency is acceptable. What can we do to improve the situation? ...

Description: This tool calculates the variables of simple harmonic motion (displacement amplitude, velocity amplitude, acceleration amplitude, and frequency) given any two of the four variables. ...

Description: Displacement, Velocity, Acceleration, Frequency Calculations ...

Description: ...discuss and compare several different accelerometer types that can be used for vibration measurement. ...

Description: ...discuss and compare several different ways to analyze your vibration data. ...

Description: When a client seeking vibration meters for a confidential project came to AV-Consulting, a Netherlands-based noise and vibration specialist, the new VSEW mk2 - 8g from Convergence Instruments proved ...

Description: Delphin Technology offers the solution for many different industries looking for an all-in-one vibration measurement system. ...

Description: An efficient MEMS transducer network has been developed specifically to check the structural health of bridges starting from the acceleration measurement to monitor the frequency and speed variations. ...

Description: Delphin Technology assists as a vibration monitoring system for hydro turbines to diagnose faults and increase safety conditions. ...

Description: There are many different types of electrical schemas used to couple sensors to electronic readouts but most of them typically use changes in voltage proportional to the various physical phenomena ...

Description: There is a growing need for space-rated, high performance accelerometers with small physical dimensions, light weight, and low outgassing characteristics that has been unmet by the vibration sensor ...

Description: Some of the most popular applications for 6 Degree of Freedom DC response accelerometers are tilt angle calculations. Due to the ability of the DC accelerometer to detect a static gravitational field, ...

Description: Jet engine vibration is perhaps the worst enemy of an aircraft maintenance team. Out-of-balance parts can lead to cracked fan, turbine, and compressor components; general metal fatigue; and if ...

Description: I was lucky enough to visit the Greater Boston Food Bank, and see how they operate on both their charitable side and their more industrial side. I took some real world vibration measurements from ...

Description: Some manufacturers employ internal maintenance teams to inspect and service equipment. Downtimes for inspection and service can be scheduled so at least the maintenance costs and equipment ...

Description: Jet engine vibration is an everyday concern for commercial and military aviation. This white paper describes three technology solutions that streamline vibration analysis and simplify balancing: 1) A ...

Description: Reliable, highly actionable vibration testing is built on a combination of top-of-the-line equipment with advanced fixturing abilities, detailed data input and analysis, and both experienced and ...

Description: The Navy needed a method to quickly and easily acquire vibration data in real time on fleet aircraft performing actual mission maneuvers. ...

Description: Vibration measurement isn't always a straightforward task. Not only are there many different instrumentation and software options you must choose from, finding vetted suppliers can be a task in of ...

Description: Seeing wind turbines is commonplace these days and they are a large part of energy production. A wind turbine harnesses wind power to generate electricity. The most common is a horizontal axis wind ...

Description: This article, recently featured on the Navy SBIR/STTR Success Stories, highlights our Slam Stick Wireless Vibration Recorder (WVR), and explains how it has benefited the US Navy, and its SBIR/STTR ...

Description: Loosely defined as a "metal to metal weld, braze, solder or metal to glass fusion," hermetic sealing is a vague (and often abused) term. Under the previously cited definition even a porous weld would ...

Description: Information about piezoelectric accelerometer design including piezoelectric transducers, quartz and piezoceramics, mechanical design, charge amplification and design trade-offs. ...

Description: How do I select the correct gain based on my accelerometer model? ...

Description: I am trying to use a Single Ended PE accelerometer, model 2248, as an input to the 6634C amplifier and there are no details in the instruction manual for this input. ...

Description: The Vibration Sentry series datalogger can be used to monitor shipments in transit and record adverse events such as shocks, high vibration levels and/or tilt. In order to do that properly, careful ...

Description: A physics (kinematics) solver built into a vibration controller is used to optimize reference pulses for classic shock specifications. These Adaptive references are more realistic, more controllable ...

Description: Vibration monitoring is a major machine monitoring application with a focus on fault diagnosis, one with a significant area for savings. CAS DataLoggers outlines the basic techniques and software ...

Description: Defense contractors like Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, BAE Systems, Honeywell, and L3, and their suppliers have found Qualmark's technology to be an essential and cost-effective addition to their ...

Description: Integrated electronics piezoelectric (IEPE) accelerometers are a mainstay of the industrial vibration monitoring market. These rugged devices are found in a variety of industries monitoring anything ...

Description: Many customers install our sensors on submerged equipment such as pumps and platform support structures. In these applications in addition to the normal vibration requirements, consideration must be ...