NDLI: Performance evaluation of accelerometers used for penetration experiments

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Author	Forrestal, M. J. Togami, T. C. Baker, W. E. Frew, D. J.
Copyright Year	2003
Abstract	We present a Hopkinson bar technique to evaluate the performance of accelerometers that measure large amplitude pulses, such as those experienced during projectile penetration tests. An aluminum striker bar impacts a thin Plexiglas or copper disk placed on the impact surface of an aluminum incident bar. The Plexiglas or copper disk pulse shaper produces a nondispersive stress wave that propagates in the aluminum incident bar and eventually interacts with a tungsten disk at the end of the bar. A quartz stress gage is placed between the aluminum bar and tungsten disk, and an accelerometer is mounted to the free end of the tungsten disk. An analytical model shows that the rise time of the incident stress pulse in the aluminum bar is long enough and the tungsten disk length is short enough that the response of the tungsten disk can be accurately approximated as rigid-body motion. We measure stress at the aluminum bar-tungsten disk interface with the quartz gage and we calculate rigid-body acceleration of the tungsten disk from Newton's Second Law and the stress gage data. In addition, we measure strain-time at two locations on the aluminum incident bar to show that the incident strain pulse is nondispersive and we calculate rigid-body acceleration of the tungsten disk from a model that uses this strain-time data. Thus, we can compare accelerations measured with the accelerometer and accelerations calculated with models that use stress gage and strain gage measurements. We show that all three acceleration-time pulses are in very close agreement for acceleration amplitudes to about 20,000 G.
Starting Page	90
Ending Page	96
Page Count	7
File Format	PDF
ISSN	00144851
Journal	Experimental Mechanics
Volume Number	43
Issue Number	1
e-ISSN	17412765
Language	English
Publisher	Kluwer Academic Publishers
Publisher Date	2003-01-01
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Accelerometer performance high-G pulses Hopkinson bar apparatus Theoretical and Applied Mechanics Structural Mechanics Engineering Fluid Dynamics Mechanical Engineering Engineering Design Characterization and Evaluation Materials
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Mechanics of Materials Mechanical Engineering Aerospace Engineering

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