BLAST TESTING

MILITARY BLAST TESTING

HIGH SHOCK RATED ONBOARD DATA ACQUISITION SYSTEMS

The Challenge:

• Blast measurements to test vehicle design, explosion characterization and occupant injury
• High shock rated instrumentation, compact enough to fit onboard test article and in vehicles
• In-dummy solutions for injury biomechanics, protective gear & restraint testing
• Trailing cables that can get damaged, alter test dynamics or cause issues with data loss or noise
• Configurable systems to support low or high channel count tests
• Knowledgeable applications engineers to direct test-set up and product selection
• Synchronizing high-speed cameras, trigger, power and communication
• High reliability factor for critical testing often in remote test locations

The Solution:

• Ultra-small DTS data acquisition systems and sensors
• Rugged systems designed to embed on or in test article, no special enclosures required
• High shock rated systems survivable up to 20,000 g
• Modular configuration with user-selected sampling rates up 1 million sps/channel
• High rate angular rate sensors up to ±50,000 deg/sec
• Store in place reliability, data writes directly to flash memory
• Trusted complete solution provider and experts in crash, blast and injury biomechanics testing
• Developed first vertical load Warrior Injury Assessment Manikin (WIAMan) for the U.S. Army