What Is A Hammer Test Or Hammer Impact Test?
A Hammer Impact Test is also known as a Modal Test, Impulse Test, Tap Test, Bump Test or, simply, a Hammer Test. It is a method of testing that allows…
Generating speed v time information from noise & vibration signals
Picture the scenario; you have captured some noise & vibration data from a rotating machine. Typically, this might be noise in a vehicle cabin, but could have been anything from…
A Guide To Digital Filtering
Understanding filters is actually simpler than it may first seem. Creating a filter is another story; it’s like being able to drive a car without having to know the intricate…
How To Choose A Sample Rate For A Required Analysis Frequency Range
The relationship between sample rate and maximum frequency that can be analysed (called bandwidth) is a factor of 0.4. Or to look at it another way the sampling rate is…
Understanding Filter Characteristics
Recently when discussing with an engineering student the characteristics of filters, it became clear that some confusion exists around this subject area. This note attempts to explain the differences between types of filter and the effects of the parameters of those filters. (more…)
How Do I Downsample Data?
Sometimes we have digitised data at a much higher rate than we need. How can we downsample data? If I wanted to say halve the sample rate can I just throw away every other data point?
The answer is NO, except in pathological conditions where you know that there is no frequency content above the new Nyquist frequency.
