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Shaker Vibration Testing

Shaker vibration testing simulates the everyday life of products to test for failure modes and improve reliability. A shaker system includes a payload, shaker, amplifier, controller, and accelerometer. There are four main test profiles: sine waves for endurance testing, random profiles for automotive and aerospace use, shock profiles for automotive and telecom, and mixed modes combining profiles. Setting up a shaker system involves defining test objectives, choosing a profile, allocating a budget, and selecting appropriate hardware and software. HBK offers a range of shaker systems from low-force to high-force options for various industries.

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Shaker Vibration Testing

Shaker vibration testing simulates the everyday life of products to test for failure modes and improve reliability. A shaker system includes a payload, shaker, amplifier, controller, and accelerometer. There are four main test profiles: sine waves for endurance testing, random profiles for automotive and aerospace use, shock profiles for automotive and telecom, and mixed modes combining profiles. Setting up a shaker system involves defining test objectives, choosing a profile, allocating a budget, and selecting appropriate hardware and software. HBK offers a range of shaker systems from low-force to high-force options for various industries.

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SHAKER TESTING

Your easy entry into


shaker vibration testing
Shaker Vibration Testing – An Introduction Shaker Systems – The General Set Up
Simulating the everyday life of any product is an integral part of A Shaker system can be quite complex depending on your test
its test and validation process. Without it, products might not object and the necessary measured data: force, displacement,
be able to stand up to the rigours of their use and transit life. velocity and/or frequency. Nevertheless, every system is made
Vibration testing allows you to predict the failure modes of an up of a payload, shaker, amplifier, controller and accelerometer.
equipment or component, and monitor their dynamic behaviour
to improve their reliability. You can test your product or
component in the vertical, longitudinal and latitudinal axis.

Shaker systems are commonly used in the automotive and


aerospace industries to qualify products, test products for use Shaker
in special environments, test products and/or components Induces vibration into the test object. Electrodynamic
according to industry-specific standards as well as for research shakers are basically a big electromagnet. When an
and development. Moreover, shakers are also used for electrical current is passed through a coil, it produces
applications in the following industries: telecom/audio, a magnetic field, which can be alternated to insight
occupational health, education, consumer products and many movement into the armature.
more.

Accelerometer
Used to monitor and control
the vibration imparted into
the test object based on Amplifier
defined profiles. This data Provides the drive signal
is fed back into the control to tell the shaker what to
loop, preventing damage to do, which way to move
the object, acquiring data and how far to move.
and enabling analysis of your
measured data –
immediately or post process.
Controller
Provides the testing
profile for the amplifier to
produce a drive signal into
the shaker. The controller
has an integrated software
for immediate and/or post
process analysis.
Start Your Vibration Test Project in 4 Steps · Shock profiles are single or multiple pulses with a given
duration at specific frequencies, commonly used in the
Step 1: Define your test object and the data you want to automotive and telecom/audio industries.
acquire. Vibration is expressed in force, displacement, and · Mixed mode profiles are a mixture of the previous three,
acceleration. such as sine and random, or random and random, or shock
response spectrum.
Step 2: Determine the test profile. There are four different
types of profiles you can look at: sine, random, shock and Step 3: Allocate your budget. Your budget depends on the size,
mixed mode. the product and the data you want to acquire. Our offering
· The sine profile is ideal for endurance since you have a ranges from a basic shaker system to a permanent magnet or
constant frequency over a range by varying the amount of electromagnetic shaker system.
displacement, velocity and acceleration.
· Random profiles are a Gaussian distribution of different Step 4: Set up your shaker system. Choose the necessary
levels of vibration over a broad bandwidth of frequencies, hardware and software for your measurement project. Within
commonly used in the automotive and aerospace industry. our company, we have 19 core shakers, which range between
permanent magnet, air-cooled and water cooled.

Permanent Magnet
Low-force Shaker Medium-force Shaker High-force Shaker
Shaker
Frequency
DC to 13kHz Up to 6,300Hz Up to 3,000Hz Up to 3,000Hz
range
Peak force 8.9N – 489N 0.94kN – 5.12kN 6.78kN – 57.83kN 80kN – 289.1kN
Automotive, aerospace and Aerospace and defence,
Education, automotive, tele- Aerospace and defence,
Industry com/audio
defence, education, telecom/ space, automotive, telecom/
space, automotive
audio audio
Structural and modal Component testing, structural
Parts and system qualification High-force and long-duration
Application analysis, laboratory testing, modal investigation,
testing, component testing testing, hardware testing
experiments in-house testing
Cooling Natural air-cooled Forced air-cooled Forced air-cooled Air and water-cooled

HBK provides a complete portfolio of offerings that unite the Additionally, we provide different types of amplifiers as well
physical world of sensors, test and measurement with the as controllers and accessories such as load bearing
digital world of simulation, modelling software and analysis. platforms, head expanders, slip tables and custom fixtures.
By creating a scalable and open data acquisition hardware, You will find more information on our website
software and simulation ecosystem, product developers can www.bksv.com/LDS.
cut time-to-market, drive innovation and take the lead in a
highly competitive global marketplace. Your best way to start is by getting in contact with one of
our sales representatives and, together, start devising the
specific shaker system for your needs.
We are happy to help you!
BN 2540 – 11 2021

HBK – Hottinger Brüel & Kjær


www.bksv.com/LDS
www.hbkworld.com
[email protected]

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