Isolating shipboard electronic equipment

Tag : shock isolator

Only rarely can such equipment be rigidly attached to the ship.
Soft attachments, often called "mounts" or "isolators" are needed.
They are the focus of this short course, which provides provendetails of: how to select isolators; shock and vibration analysis methods; equipment fragility, and applications to MIL-S-901G andMIL-STD-167 tests; a description of the tests; a review of shockand vibration conditions; and test data from decks with naturalfrequencies at 8, 14, 25Hz etc.
Successfully meeting the tests and qualifying equipment the firsttime through is a principal objective of this course.
The Navy's MIL-STD-901D barge test is especially severe.
COTS equipment often cannot meet the shock conditions unless protectedin properly designed enclosures.
Isolation of equipment and how the isolation mounts and enclosureare selected and designed are extremely important.
Selecting the wrong isolator can be worse than hard mounting.
Shock and vibration tests are very expensive.
Failure may require extensive modifications to equipment and thenretest in order to validate design and equipment.
Delays to the program are inevitable, costs increase rapidly andschedules can be badly affected. Request a free brochure from Equipment Reliability Institute ...
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