Test system for measuring and evaluating dynamic body forces

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-8955397-B2
Application number	US-201213655514-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 19, 2012
Priority date	Oct 20, 2011
Publication date	Feb 17, 2015
Grant date	Feb 17, 2015

Abstract

A test system configured to impart a body disturbance to a test specimen and measure motion or displacement of the test specimen in response to the input body disturbance. The system includes one or more actuator devices configured to replicate motion or displacement of the body imparted through the original input body disturbance utilizing the measured motion or displacement. As disclosed, the system includes algorithms or instructions to generate control parameters utilizing the measured motion or displacement to control operation of the one or more actuator devices. The force applied through the one or more actuator devices to replicate the measured motion or displacement is used to determine the force or load applied to the body via the input disturbance.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method comprising:
applying an input force disturbance to a body;
measuring motion or displacement of the body in response to the input force disturbance;
with the force disturbance removed, applying an input load to the body to replicate the measured motion or displacement imparted to the body via the input force disturbance; and
measuring the input load applied.

2. The method of claim 1 and comprising:
utilizing the measure…

Assignees

• Mts System Corp

Inventors

• Saari Byron J
• Fricke David M

Classifications

• G01M7/022 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic

• G01L5/0052 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic

• G01M17/007

  Physics · mapped topic