Shock calibration of accelerometers using Hopkinson's bar
Technical Report
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OSTI ID:7143165
A compressive strain wave traveling in a Hopkinson's Bar is used as a pulse to calibrate accelerometers at a level of 100,000 G's acceleration. An instrumentation package was built to automatically display the calibration constant on a digital voltmeter at the instant of the test. The design procedures, equations, and electronic circuits necessary for the calibration are presented.
- Research Organization:
- California Univ., Berkeley (USA). Coll. of Engineering
- DOE Contract Number:
- W-7405-ENG-48
- OSTI ID:
- 7143165
- Report Number(s):
- UCRL-13725
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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