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STDI — Structural Test Design and Interpretation
for Aerospace Programs
Course Overview: This new three-day course provides a rigorous look at structural testing and its roles in product development and verification for aerospace programs. The course starts with a broad view of structural verification throughout product development and the role of testing. The course then covers planning, designing, performing, interpreting, and documenting a test.
The course covers static loads testing at low- and high-levels of assembly, modal survey testing and math-model correlation, sine-sweep and sine-burst testing, and random vibration testing.
The objectives of this course are to improve your understanding of how to
- identify and clearly state test objectives
- design (or recognize) a test that satisfies the identified objectives while minimizing risk
- establish pass/fail criteria
- design the instrumentation
- interpret test data
- write a good test plan and a good test report
Target Audience: All engineers and managers involved in ensuring that flight vehicles and their payloads are structurally safe and ready to fly. This course is intended to be an effective follow-up to Instar’s course “Space-Mission Structures (SMS): From Concept to Launch”, although that course is not a prerequisite.
Course Developer and Instructor: Tom Sarafin
Course Length: Three full days or five 5–hour days