The test specifications for spacecraft and components permit test levels to be reduced under a procedure commonly referred to as notching. A summary is provided of the steps required to comply with the notching criterion. Primary structural loads are discussed along with aspect of mathematical modelling of the spacecraft structure, a launch loads analysis, a vibration test loads analysis, and notching methods. It is shown that current, general vibration test specifications are capable of producing unrealistically high spacecraft structural loads.


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    Title :

    Avoiding unrealistic overtest by notching the vibration test specification


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    Annual Meeting on the Cost effectiveness in the environmental sciences ; 1974 ; Washington, DC


    Publication date :

    1974-01-01


    Type of media :

    Miscellaneous


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English


    Keywords :


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