Project number
16079
Organization
Raytheon Missile Systems
Academic year
2016-2017
Onsite high-g shock testing of electronics components for the sponsor’s products can be expensive and time-consuming. Coordinating the shock and data-collection aspects of a missile launch in a laboratory simulation would be quicker and less expensive, and could negate the need for a field test.
The objective of this project is to design a robust, high-g shock-delivery system that simulates the set-forward forces created by shoulder-fired missile launchers. The design uses compressed air to induce a shock to a fixture with a mounted test specimen.
Energy in the compressed air is transmitted to the fixture by applying a pressure differential across a pneumatic striker subsystem, rapidly accelerating a steel plunger into the baseplate. Shock data is acquired via accelerometers affixed to the baseplate near the test specimen.
The objective of this project is to design a robust, high-g shock-delivery system that simulates the set-forward forces created by shoulder-fired missile launchers. The design uses compressed air to induce a shock to a fixture with a mounted test specimen.
Energy in the compressed air is transmitted to the fixture by applying a pressure differential across a pneumatic striker subsystem, rapidly accelerating a steel plunger into the baseplate. Shock data is acquired via accelerometers affixed to the baseplate near the test specimen.