Vibration and Acoustic Sensors

Continue your education with this classroom filled with tutorials exploring sensor types, applications, and measurement techniques to enhance your designs. From accelerometers to audio performance sensors, we cover harmonics, quantification methods, and more. Make this your master class with essential tools to optimize your projects and solve complex noise and vibration control engineering challenges.

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Vibration • Accelerometers

What are the types and uses of vibration sensors?

What are the subtleties of using accelerometers as vibration sensors?

What are ten key parameters of audio system performance?

Quantifying and measuring non-electrical phenomena: Vibration

Each sensor technology has unique performance characteristics that make it suited for a specific type of applications.

How are these parameters specified and measured and the safe sound levels that are specified?

Basic concepts of periodic versus random vibration, measuring vibration, and vibration characterization.

There are numerous mechanical, environmental, electronic, and application-related factors to consider.

Harmonics • Measurement

Understanding instrumentation for measuring total harmonic distortion

Understanding total harmonic distortion measurements

What’s all this triplen harmonics stuff?

A relatively small number of harmonics diminish in amplitude with spectral distance from the fundamental.

There are a few elusive details that come into play during THD (Total Harmonic Distortion) measurements.

Become more famliar with triplen harmonics — having to do with the third harmonic.

Featured Resources

Rethinking Haptic Testing: The Microphone Solution

Development of a Smart Building Monitoring System

Haptic technology is all about bringing a sense of touch into the digital world.

Monitoring (SHM) and Structural Dynamics Monitoring (SDM), enabling real-time monitoring of urban areas, critical civil infrastructure sites, and more.

Dynamic Strain Sensors and Accelerometers for Structural Testing

Signal Processing Impacts of ICP® Accelerometer Limit Violations

Accelerometers with embedded Integrated Circuit Piezoelectric (ICP) circuitry are complex electro-mechanical systems. Learn more by downloading this white paper.

Cases of measurements on a civil structure and on the GVT of an F-16 Aircraft.

Noise • Audio • Acoustics

Scanning for defects with sound waves

The difference between electronic distortion and noise

Audio measurements for product development

How does an acoustic camera work and what’s it good for?

Recent advancements in SAM technology have significantly improved throughput speeds and defect detectability.

The concepts of distortion and noise in signal processing overlap to a limited extent, but they are distinct phenomena.

It pays to know the fundamental parameters that quantify the performance of sound equipment.

There are a variety of microphone array structures to support specific analysis needs.

PCB manufactures vibration, pressure, force and strain, shock, and acoustic sensors used by design engineers and predictive maintenance professionals worldwide for test, measurement, monitoring, and control requirements. Our sensors support testing in aerospace and defense, automotive, transportation, civil engineering, and general R&D industries. Primary sensing technologies include piezoelectric (ICP®), piezoresistive, and capacitive MEMS.

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