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.
Avoiding unrealistic overtest by notching the vibration test specification
Annual Meeting on the Cost effectiveness in the environmental sciences ; 1974 ; Washington, DC
1974-01-01
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