Structural Test Design and Interpretation for Aerospace Programs Training

Commitment 3 days, 7-8 hours a day.
Language English
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COURSE OVERVIEW

The structural Test Design and Interpretation for Aerospace Programs Training course provides a rigorous look at structural testing and its roles in product development and verification for aerospace programs. The course starts with a broad view of structural verification throughout product development and the role of testing. The course then covers planning, designing, performing, interpreting, and documenting a test. The Structural Test Design and Interpretation for Aerospace Programs Training course covers static loads testing at low- and high levels of assembly, modal survey testing and math-model correlation, sine-sweep and sine-burst testing, and random vibration testing.

WHAT'S INCLUDED?
  • 3 days of Structural Test Design and Interpretation for Aerospace Programs Training with an expert instructor
  • Structural Test Design and Interpretation for Aerospace Programs Course Guide
  • Certificate of Completion
  • 100% Satisfaction Guarantee
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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

COURSE OBJECTIVES

Upon completing this Structural Test Design and Interpretation for Aerospace Programs course, learners will be able to meet these objectives:

  • Identify and clearly state test objectives
  • Design (or recognize) a test that satisfies the identified objectives while minimizing risk
  • Establish pass/fail criteria
  • Design the instrumentation
  • Interpret test data
  • Write a good test plan and a good test report
CUSTOMIZE IT
  • We can adapt this Structural Test Design and Interpretation for Aerospace Programs course to your group’s background and work requirements at little to no added cost.
  • If you are familiar with some aspects of this Structural Test Design and Interpretation for Aerospace Programs course, we can omit or shorten their discussion.
  • We can adjust the emphasis placed on the various topics or build the Structural Test Design and Interpretation for Aerospace Programs course around the mix of technologies of interest to you (including technologies other than those included in this outline).
  • If your background is nontechnical, we can exclude the more technical topics, include the topics that may be of special interest to you (e.g., as a manager or policy-maker), and present the Structural Test Design and Interpretation for Aerospace Programs course in a manner understandable to lay audiences.
AUDIENCE/TARGET GROUP

The target audience for this Structural Test Design and Interpretation for Aerospace Programs course:

  • All engineers and managers are involved in ensuring that flight vehicles and their payloads are structurally safe to fly. This course is intended to be an effective follow-up to Instar’s course “Space-Mission Structures (SMS): From Concept to Launch”, although that course is not a prerequisite.
CLASS PREREQUISITES

The knowledge and skills that a learner must have before attending this  Structural Test Design and Interpretation for Aerospace Programs course are:

  • N/A

COURSE SYLLABUS

  1. Overview of Structural Testing: Why do a structural test? Structural requirements; the building-blocks verification process; verification logic flows; qualification, acceptance, and proto flight testing; selecting the right type of test; two things all tests need; test management: documents, reviews, and controls
  2. Designing and Documenting a Test: Designing a test, suggested contents of a test plan, test-article configuration, boundary conditions, ensuring the adequacy of a strength test, a key difference between a qualification test and a proof test, success criteria and effective instrumentation, preparing to interpret test data, documenting with a test report
  3. Loads Testing of Small Specimens: Applications and objectives, common loading systems, test standards, case history: designing a test to substantiate new NASA criteria for analysis of preloaded bolts
  4. Static Loads Testing of Large Assemblies: Introduction to static loads testing, special considerations, introducing and controlling loads, developing the load cases, for example: developing load cases for a truss structure, be sure to design the right test! centrifuge testing
  5. Testing on an Electrodynamic Shaker: Test configuration, limitations of testing on a shaker, fixture design, deriving loads from measured accelerations, sine-sweep testing, sine-burst testing, understanding random vibration, random vibration testing, interpreting test data
  6. Notching and Force Limiting.Understanding notching, case history of notching without technical rationale, methods of notching, force limiting, designing a force-limiting fixture, NASA’s semi-empirical method, examples, modification during the test, response limiting, and manual notching.
  7. Modal Survey Testing and Math Model: Correlation Test objectives and target modes, designing a modal survey test, key considerations, test configuration, and approaches, checking the test data, correlating the math model
  8. Case History: Vibration Testing of a Spacecraft Telescope: Case History: Vibration Testing of a Spacecraft Telescope Overview, initial structural test plan, problem statement, revised test plan, testing at the telescope assembly level, testing at the vehicle level, lessons learned and conclusions
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