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- the present disclosure relates in general to the field of electronic devices and more specifically to a system and method for using a surrogate component in shock or vibration testing.
- Shock and vibration testing is performed on computer systems and system components such as hard drives, liquid crystal displays (LCDs), compact disk (CD) drives, floppy drives, and other peripheral components, in order to determine whether the systems and components can withstand anticipated shock and vibration events. Testing often is performed on assembled systems as well as on individual components. System testing often consists of securing a test system (with components installed within) to a programmable shock table and selectively inducing a desired shock to the system. The force delivered to the system may be measured using an accelerometer.
- testing individual component which is sometimes referred to as “stand-alone testing” often consists of securing a component to a shock table and delivering a selected shock or vibration to the component. The component is then tested to determine whether the delivered shock or vibration has damaged the component. If the component is undamaged, the selected shock is increase incrementally and the component is re-tested. This process is repeated until the component fails, thereby determining the shock level which a component can withstand. This is sometimes referred to as a component's level of fragility.
- the testing of assembled systems presents a number of problems.
- One problem occurs in the shock testing of systems with installed components.
- an accelerometer is secured to a component to measure the shock delivered to the component. This testing is performed in order to determine the shock experienced by a component when the test system experiences a particular shock.
- this measurement is often inaccurate, as the system itself may absorb, dampen, amplify, or otherwise distort the force experienced and recorded by the accelerometer attached to the component. Accordingly, components from different suppliers installed in identical systems may have different responses to the same stimuli delivered to the system.
- the component within the test system experiences a complex waveform, as opposed to the ideal waveform experienced by the stand-alone test of the component.
- the correlation of system level response to the stand-alone response (or device fragility level) is often difficult to make. Part of the problem is from the difficulties that the time domain data presents in comparative analysis.
- the comparison of complex waveform from the system test to the stand-alone ideal waveform from the stand-alone test is not a direct comparison. Usually the amplitudes of each waveform were compared to determine if the drive in the system had received a shock that exceeded the drive's own fragility established in stand alone testing. In most cases a fundamental waveform cannot be gleaned from this data. There are usually many amplitudes along the time domain of the complex waveform generated by the system test and there is not a reliable way to determine which amplitudes represent sufficient energy to damage a component.
- the disclosure includes a surrogate component for shock testing a housing with exterior dimensions, mass, and a center of gravity approximately the same as the exterior dimensions, mass, and center of gravity of a counterpart component.
- the housing also has a stiffness greater than the counterpart component and has an interface for securing a sensor.
- the counterpart component may be a hard drive and the housing may be constructed from a molybdenum material.
- the present disclosure also describes a method for testing a computer system that includes obtaining surrogate component shock data from an accelerometer that is secured to a surrogate component installed within a test system.
- the surrogate component shock data is then converted to shock response spectrum (SRS) data.
- SRS shock response spectrum
- the surrogate component SRS data is then compared to SRS data from stand alone counterpart component SRS data.
- the present disclosure contains a number of important technical advantages.
- One technical advantages is converting shock response data into the shock response spectrum. This allows for a meaningful comparison of the shock response from stand alone component tests and system testing.
- Another technical advantage of the present disclosure is the introduction of a surrogate component in system testing.
- the use of a surrogate component reduces resource requirements by eliminating the need to use components which may be damaged during testing.
- the use of surrogate components also increases the accuracy of the data collected by eliminating the distorting effects of actual components because the increased stiffness of the surrogate component assures that the acceleration measured internally is the same as the acceleration delivered externally to the surrogate component.
- FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a surrogate component according to the present disclosure
- FIG. 2 is an exploded view of a surrogate drive according to the present disclosure, including an accelerometer
- FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a shock testing system
- FIG. 4A is a flow diagram of a method for testing a system using a surrogate component
- FIG. 4B is flow diagram of a method for performing stand alone testing of a component
- FIG. 5A shows response data in the time domain
- FIG. 5B shows SRS data from stand alone testing of a component
- FIG. 5C shows response data from a system test
- FIG. 5D shows a comparison of stand alone SRS test data and system SRS test data
- FIG. 5E shows a comparison of stand alone SRS test data and system SRS test data
- FIG. 5F shows SRS data including data outside of the relevant frequency range.
- FIGS. 1 through 5F Preferred embodiments and their advantages are best understood by reference to FIGS. 1 through 5F, wherein like numbers are used to indicate like and corresponding parts.
- FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a surrogate component having a housing depicted generally at 10 .
- housing 10 include base 12 and top 14 secured by a plurality of removable fasteners 18 .
- Housing 10 further includes mounting interfaces 20 that consist of mounting bores formed to allow housing 10 to be secured to a test system (as shown in FIG. 3).
- Housing 10 further includes slot 16 formed therein for receiving a ribbon cable.
- housing 10 has the same approximate exterior dimensions as a counterpart component.
- the counterpart component to which housing 10 is modeled after is a hard drive.
- housing 10 may have the approximate dimensions of any of a number of different hard drives, liquid crystal displays (LCDs), CD drives, DVD drives, floppy drives, or other suitable peripheral components.
- Housing 10 further has the same approximate mass as the counterpart component it is modeled after. Housing 10 also has the same approximate center of gravity as the counterpart component which it is modeled after.
- Housing 10 in the present embodiment, has a stiffness greater than the counterpart component which it is modeled after.
- housing 10 has stiffness characteristics such that housing 10 experiences its first bending mode at approximately 2300 HZ.
- the increased stiffness of the housing 10 assures that the acceleration measured internally is the same as the acceleration delivered externally to housing 10 .
- a production level component such as a hard drive does not have this stiffness and is more likely to corrupt or distort the pulse that is delivered to the external surface of the drive and what is received by the accelerometer because the components inside the drive participate in the shock event.
- Housing 10 is preferably constructed from a molybdenum material. Alternatively, housing 10 may be constructed from an aluminum material or another suitable material.
- FIG. 2 is an exploded view of the surrogate component shown in FIG. 1.
- top 14 may be selectively removed and re-secured to base 12 via the removal and reattachment of fasteners 18 in bores 24 in top 14 and base 12 .
- Bores 24 are preferably formed to receive fasteners 18 .
- Base 12 further includes an interface portion 26 for securing sensor 28 .
- interface portion 26 is a cavity formed to receive sensor 28 . More specifically, cavity 26 is formed to position sensor 28 in the approximate center of gravity of housing 26 .
- sensor 26 is preferably an accelerometer. More particularly, sensor 26 may be a tri-directional accelerometer with connection 30 connected thereto. Connection 30 may be disposed within slot 32 formed in base 12 when accelerometer 28 is disposed within cavity 26 . Accelerometer 28 may be preferably secured within cavity 26 using an adhesive, such as an epoxy resin, a fastener, or any other suitable method for securing accelerometer 28 within cavity 26 .
- an adhesive such as an epoxy resin, a fastener, or any other suitable method for securing accelerometer 28 within cavity 26 .
- cavity 26 may be enlarged to allow accelerometer 28 to be selectively located in a plurality of positions within cavity 26 .
- This alternative embodiment would allow, for instance, positioning accelerometer 28 near an edge of housing 10 to allow for the measurement of shock experienced at the edge of housing 10 .
- cavity 26 may be expanded to allow for a plurality of accelerometers 28 to be disposed therein.
- FIG. 3 shows a test system with a surrogate component according to the present disclosure.
- Test system 42 is secured to shaker table 40 .
- shaker table 40 is a programmable shaker table operable to deliver selected shock and vibration events to systems or components attached thereto.
- Test system 42 includes a chassis 46 .
- Motherboard 44 is secured within chassis 46 .
- Surrogate component 48 is preferably secured to motherboard 44 .
- Surrogate component 48 (and the sensor associated with surrogate component 48 , as shown in FIG. 2) is preferably operatively connected to digital computer 52 via connection 50 .
- Digital computer 52 is operable to receive and record data received from surrogate component 48 . More particularly, digital computer 52 is preferably operable to record time domain data from digital computer 52 and is operable to convert data received and recorded from surrogate component as time domain data into frequency domain data or so-called shock response spectrum (SRS) data.
- SRS shock response spectrum
- more than one component may be installed within test system 42 .
- digital computer 52 may be any suitable system for receiving and recording data received from surrogate component 48 .
- FIG. 4A is a flow diagram of a method for testing a system using a surrogate component.
- the method includes performing a stand alone test of a component 60 .
- this testing takes place with a component such as a hard drive secured to the shock table and is used to determine the component's level of fragility.
- Multiple stand alone component tests may be performed on a single type of component to ensure the accuracy of the testing.
- the data is preferably recorded from the testing that is in the time domain. Data may be recorded either from a sensor associated with the shock table or from a sensor associated with the component being tested.
- time domain data is preferably converted into SRS data using known techniques such as a Zonic Medallion (time domain) to Signalysis SRS-type conversion.
- Zonic Medallion time domain
- Signalysis SRS-type conversion An example of time domain data converted into SRS data is shown in FIG. 5B which shows SRS data for a series of three tests of a component. The peak amplitude shown in the SRS data represents the components fragility level.
- system tests may be preferably performed on test systems with surrogate components installed therein 64 and as shown in FIG. 3.
- the surrogate components are modeled after the components tested in step 60 , which may also be called the “counterpart component” of the surrogate component.
- the modeling of the counterpart components is further preferably directed at approximately emulating the exterior dimensions, mass, and center of gravity of the counterpart components.
- the system test is preferably performed to simulate expected shock or vibration events anticipated to effect a system.
- Test data is recorded from the system test during and is then preferably converted into SRS data 66 .
- An example of the type of data recorded is shown in FIG. 5A, showing response data in the time domain.
- An example of converted SRS data is shown in FIG. 5C.
- FIG. 5D is a comparison of SRS data from a stand-alone test 90 and SRS data from a system test 92 .
- FIG. 5D shows that the SRS system test data 92 does not exceed the fragility level of stand-alone test data 90 . Accordingly the component tested is not anticipated to fail and testing is complete 72 .
- FIG. 5E is also a comparison of SRS data from a stand-alone test 94 and SRS data from a system test 96 .
- the SRS system test data 96 exceeds the fragility level of stand-alone test data 94 .
- the component tested is anticipated to fail. Because the component is expected to fail during anticipated shock events, the system may be redesigned to prevent such events or a component with a greater level of fragility may be implemented within the system 74 .
- FIG. 5F is an example of test data in which some of the amplitude data at higher frequencies may be disregarded because the component is not anticipated to be effected by forces acting at these frequencies.
- FIG. 4B is flow diagram of a method for performing stand alone testing of a component.
- the method includes first selecting a frequency for testing 80 and then proceeding with a stand-alone test of a component at a given force 82 .
- the intial force selected is a relatively low force, which the component is anticipated to withstand.
- the component is tested to determine whether the component has failed 84 . If the component has not failed, the selected force may be increased incrementally and the test may be performed again 82 . After each test, the component is tested to determine whether the component has been damaged 84 . This process continues and the selected force is repeated until the component fails 86 . Further, the entire process may be repeated for alternative frequencies 80 .
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- The present disclosure relates in general to the field of electronic devices and more specifically to a system and method for using a surrogate component in shock or vibration testing.
- Shock and vibration testing is performed on computer systems and system components such as hard drives, liquid crystal displays (LCDs), compact disk (CD) drives, floppy drives, and other peripheral components, in order to determine whether the systems and components can withstand anticipated shock and vibration events. Testing often is performed on assembled systems as well as on individual components. System testing often consists of securing a test system (with components installed within) to a programmable shock table and selectively inducing a desired shock to the system. The force delivered to the system may be measured using an accelerometer.
- Testing individual component, which is sometimes referred to as “stand-alone testing” often consists of securing a component to a shock table and delivering a selected shock or vibration to the component. The component is then tested to determine whether the delivered shock or vibration has damaged the component. If the component is undamaged, the selected shock is increase incrementally and the component is re-tested. This process is repeated until the component fails, thereby determining the shock level which a component can withstand. This is sometimes referred to as a component's level of fragility.
- The testing of assembled systems presents a number of problems. One problem occurs in the shock testing of systems with installed components. Typically, an accelerometer is secured to a component to measure the shock delivered to the component. This testing is performed in order to determine the shock experienced by a component when the test system experiences a particular shock. However, this measurement is often inaccurate, as the system itself may absorb, dampen, amplify, or otherwise distort the force experienced and recorded by the accelerometer attached to the component. Accordingly, components from different suppliers installed in identical systems may have different responses to the same stimuli delivered to the system.
- Also, the component within the test system experiences a complex waveform, as opposed to the ideal waveform experienced by the stand-alone test of the component. The correlation of system level response to the stand-alone response (or device fragility level) is often difficult to make. Part of the problem is from the difficulties that the time domain data presents in comparative analysis. The comparison of complex waveform from the system test to the stand-alone ideal waveform from the stand-alone test is not a direct comparison. Usually the amplitudes of each waveform were compared to determine if the drive in the system had received a shock that exceeded the drive's own fragility established in stand alone testing. In most cases a fundamental waveform cannot be gleaned from this data. There are usually many amplitudes along the time domain of the complex waveform generated by the system test and there is not a reliable way to determine which amplitudes represent sufficient energy to damage a component.
- Yet another problem associated with testing components is that system testing may result in component failure, destroying the component. Accordingly, this testing requires significant resource allocation.
- Therefore, a need has arisen for a system and method for comparing the shock response from stand alone component tests and system shock and vibration tests.
- A further need has arisen for a system and method for performing shock and vibration testing of systems that reduces resource requirements.
- A further need has arisen for a system and method for accurately measuring the shock experienced by a component during system shock and vibration testing.
- In accordance with teachings of the present disclosure, a system and method are described for using a surrogate component in shock and vibration testing that substantially reduces the problems and difficulties associated with prior systems and methods for shock and vibration testing of components and systems.
- The disclosure includes a surrogate component for shock testing a housing with exterior dimensions, mass, and a center of gravity approximately the same as the exterior dimensions, mass, and center of gravity of a counterpart component. The housing also has a stiffness greater than the counterpart component and has an interface for securing a sensor. More particularly, the counterpart component may be a hard drive and the housing may be constructed from a molybdenum material.
- The present disclosure also describes a method for testing a computer system that includes obtaining surrogate component shock data from an accelerometer that is secured to a surrogate component installed within a test system. The surrogate component shock data is then converted to shock response spectrum (SRS) data. The surrogate component SRS data is then compared to SRS data from stand alone counterpart component SRS data.
- The present disclosure contains a number of important technical advantages. One technical advantages is converting shock response data into the shock response spectrum. This allows for a meaningful comparison of the shock response from stand alone component tests and system testing.
- Another technical advantage of the present disclosure is the introduction of a surrogate component in system testing. The use of a surrogate component reduces resource requirements by eliminating the need to use components which may be damaged during testing. The use of surrogate components also increases the accuracy of the data collected by eliminating the distorting effects of actual components because the increased stiffness of the surrogate component assures that the acceleration measured internally is the same as the acceleration delivered externally to the surrogate component.
- A more complete understanding of the present embodiments and advantages thereof may be acquired by referring to the following description taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings, in which like reference numbers indicate like features, and wherein:
- FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a surrogate component according to the present disclosure;
- FIG. 2 is an exploded view of a surrogate drive according to the present disclosure, including an accelerometer;
- FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a shock testing system;
- FIG. 4A is a flow diagram of a method for testing a system using a surrogate component;
- FIG. 4B is flow diagram of a method for performing stand alone testing of a component;
- FIG. 5A shows response data in the time domain;
- FIG. 5B shows SRS data from stand alone testing of a component;
- FIG. 5C shows response data from a system test;
- FIG. 5D shows a comparison of stand alone SRS test data and system SRS test data;
- FIG. 5E shows a comparison of stand alone SRS test data and system SRS test data; and
- FIG. 5F shows SRS data including data outside of the relevant frequency range.
- Preferred embodiments and their advantages are best understood by reference to FIGS. 1 through 5F, wherein like numbers are used to indicate like and corresponding parts.
- FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a surrogate component having a housing depicted generally at10. In the present embodiment,
housing 10 includebase 12 and top 14 secured by a plurality ofremovable fasteners 18.Housing 10 further includes mountinginterfaces 20 that consist of mounting bores formed to allowhousing 10 to be secured to a test system (as shown in FIG. 3).Housing 10 further includesslot 16 formed therein for receiving a ribbon cable. - In the present embodiment,
housing 10 has the same approximate exterior dimensions as a counterpart component. In the present embodiment the counterpart component to whichhousing 10 is modeled after is a hard drive. In analternative embodiment housing 10 may have the approximate dimensions of any of a number of different hard drives, liquid crystal displays (LCDs), CD drives, DVD drives, floppy drives, or other suitable peripheral components.Housing 10 further has the same approximate mass as the counterpart component it is modeled after.Housing 10 also has the same approximate center of gravity as the counterpart component which it is modeled after. -
Housing 10, in the present embodiment, has a stiffness greater than the counterpart component which it is modeled after. In this particular embodiment,housing 10 has stiffness characteristics such thathousing 10 experiences its first bending mode at approximately 2300 HZ. The increased stiffness of thehousing 10 assures that the acceleration measured internally is the same as the acceleration delivered externally tohousing 10. A production level component such as a hard drive does not have this stiffness and is more likely to corrupt or distort the pulse that is delivered to the external surface of the drive and what is received by the accelerometer because the components inside the drive participate in the shock event. -
Housing 10 is preferably constructed from a molybdenum material. Alternatively,housing 10 may be constructed from an aluminum material or another suitable material. - FIG. 2 is an exploded view of the surrogate component shown in FIG. 1. As shown, top14 may be selectively removed and re-secured to base 12 via the removal and reattachment of
fasteners 18 inbores 24 intop 14 andbase 12.Bores 24 are preferably formed to receivefasteners 18.Base 12 further includes aninterface portion 26 for securingsensor 28. In the present embodiment,interface portion 26 is a cavity formed to receivesensor 28. More specifically,cavity 26 is formed to positionsensor 28 in the approximate center of gravity ofhousing 26. - In the present embodiment,
sensor 26 is preferably an accelerometer. More particularly,sensor 26 may be a tri-directional accelerometer withconnection 30 connected thereto.Connection 30 may be disposed withinslot 32 formed inbase 12 whenaccelerometer 28 is disposed withincavity 26.Accelerometer 28 may be preferably secured withincavity 26 using an adhesive, such as an epoxy resin, a fastener, or any other suitable method for securingaccelerometer 28 withincavity 26. - In an alternative embodiment,
cavity 26 may be enlarged to allowaccelerometer 28 to be selectively located in a plurality of positions withincavity 26. This alternative embodiment would allow, for instance, positioningaccelerometer 28 near an edge ofhousing 10 to allow for the measurement of shock experienced at the edge ofhousing 10. In another alternative embodiment,cavity 26 may be expanded to allow for a plurality ofaccelerometers 28 to be disposed therein. - FIG. 3 shows a test system with a surrogate component according to the present disclosure.
Test system 42 is secured to shaker table 40. In one particular embodiment, shaker table 40 is a programmable shaker table operable to deliver selected shock and vibration events to systems or components attached thereto. -
Test system 42 includes achassis 46.Motherboard 44 is secured withinchassis 46.Surrogate component 48 is preferably secured tomotherboard 44. Surrogate component 48 (and the sensor associated withsurrogate component 48, as shown in FIG. 2) is preferably operatively connected todigital computer 52 viaconnection 50.Digital computer 52 is operable to receive and record data received fromsurrogate component 48. More particularly,digital computer 52 is preferably operable to record time domain data fromdigital computer 52 and is operable to convert data received and recorded from surrogate component as time domain data into frequency domain data or so-called shock response spectrum (SRS) data. In an alternative embodiment, more than one component may be installed withintest system 42. Also in an alternative embodiment,digital computer 52 may be any suitable system for receiving and recording data received fromsurrogate component 48. - FIG. 4A is a flow diagram of a method for testing a system using a surrogate component. The method includes performing a stand alone test of a
component 60. Preferably, this testing takes place with a component such as a hard drive secured to the shock table and is used to determine the component's level of fragility. Multiple stand alone component tests may be performed on a single type of component to ensure the accuracy of the testing. The data is preferably recorded from the testing that is in the time domain. Data may be recorded either from a sensor associated with the shock table or from a sensor associated with the component being tested. After time domain data has been recorded, the time domain data is preferably converted into SRS data using known techniques such as a Zonic Medallion (time domain) to Signalysis SRS-type conversion. An example of time domain data converted into SRS data is shown in FIG. 5B which shows SRS data for a series of three tests of a component. The peak amplitude shown in the SRS data represents the components fragility level. - After performing stand alone tests on components, system tests may be preferably performed on test systems with surrogate components installed therein64 and as shown in FIG. 3. Preferably, the surrogate components are modeled after the components tested in
step 60, which may also be called the “counterpart component” of the surrogate component. The modeling of the counterpart components is further preferably directed at approximately emulating the exterior dimensions, mass, and center of gravity of the counterpart components. - The system test is preferably performed to simulate expected shock or vibration events anticipated to effect a system. Test data is recorded from the system test during and is then preferably converted into
SRS data 66. An example of the type of data recorded is shown in FIG. 5A, showing response data in the time domain. An example of converted SRS data is shown in FIG. 5C. - After obtaining SRS data from both stand alone tests of components and test systems, the SRS data of the tests is compared68. This comparison is preferably made to determine whether the component will experience a shock within the system that is greater than its
fragility level 70. Examples of such a comparison are shown in FIG. 5D and FIG. 5E. FIG. 5D is a comparison of SRS data from a stand-alone test 90 and SRS data from asystem test 92. FIG. 5D shows that the SRSsystem test data 92 does not exceed the fragility level of stand-alone test data 90. Accordingly the component tested is not anticipated to fail and testing is complete 72. - FIG. 5E is also a comparison of SRS data from a stand-
alone test 94 and SRS data from asystem test 96. However, in this example, the SRSsystem test data 96 exceeds the fragility level of stand-alone test data 94. Accordingly the component tested is anticipated to fail. Because the component is expected to fail during anticipated shock events, the system may be redesigned to prevent such events or a component with a greater level of fragility may be implemented within thesystem 74. - It should also be noted that experience has shown that data outside of an expected frequency range may sometimes by disregarded in the comparative analysis of system SRS data and stand-alone SRS data. FIG. 5F is an example of test data in which some of the amplitude data at higher frequencies may be disregarded because the component is not anticipated to be effected by forces acting at these frequencies.
- FIG. 4B is flow diagram of a method for performing stand alone testing of a component. The method includes first selecting a frequency for testing80 and then proceeding with a stand-alone test of a component at a given
force 82. Preferably, the intial force selected is a relatively low force, which the component is anticipated to withstand. After the test is performed, the component is tested to determine whether the component has failed 84. If the component has not failed, the selected force may be increased incrementally and the test may be performed again 82. After each test, the component is tested to determine whether the component has been damaged 84. This process continues and the selected force is repeated until the component fails 86. Further, the entire process may be repeated foralternative frequencies 80. - Although the disclosed embodiments have been described in detail, it should be understood that various changes, substitutions and alterations can be made to the embodiments without departing from their spirit and scope.
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