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Shock calibration of accelerometers using Hopkinson's bar

Technical Report ·
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