UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON/ COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING

WISCONSIN STRUCTURES & MATERIALS TESTING LABORATORY (WSMTL)

VIBRATION AND SHOCK TESTING EQUIPMENT

The equipment list below identifies current, state-of-the-art compression and tension machines available in the laboratory. The machines have load ranges from a few hundred pounds to one million pounds providing a capability to test a wide variety of materials and structures.

 

Machine Name	Function	Capacity
Ometron Vibration Pattern Imager, VPI	Vibration Displacement Measurement	NA
Polytec Laser Vibrometer, PSV-200	Vibration Velocity & Displacement Measurement	NA
Nicolet 2090 Digital Oscilloscope	Dynamic Data Acquistion	NA
Nicolet 1090 Digital Oscilloscope	Dynamic Data Acquistion	NA
SPATE 9000	Thermographic Stress Analysis	NA
GenRad Analyzer 1564	Spectral Analysis for Sound & Vibration	NA
Precision Inst. Tape Recorder	Data Tape Recorder (FM)	4 channel
Krohn-Hite 3343 Filters	Band-Pass/Reject Filters	2 channel
Nicolet Sci. Corp 660A	FFT Frequency Spectrum Analyzer	2 channel
MB Electronics Exciter	Vibration Shaker	1200 lb force
Bruel & Kjaer 1047	Exciter Control	NA
LDS Vibration Exciter	Random, Sine & Shock Exciter	1100 lb force, 2-inch-displacement
Ling Electronics	Modal Analysis Exciter	100 lb force
APS Dynamics 300	Modal Analysis Exciter	5 lb force
VTS-100 Vibration System	Modal Analysis Exciter	100 lb force
B&K Vibration Exciter 4809	Modal Analysis Exciter	10 lb force
Data Physics DP550W in Controller	LDS Exciter Controller for Sine, Dwell, Random & Shock	3 inputs, 1 output
Data Physics DP550W in Controller	Modal Exciter Controller for Sine, Random, with FFT Analyzer	4 inputs, 2 ouputs
Spin Table	Constant Acceleration Application	NA
Transducers & Conditioners	Dynamic: Load, Acceleration & Displacement Measurement	Wide Range
Pentium Computer Data Acquisition Systems	High Speed Multi-Channel Data Acquisition	16 channels

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