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Charpy V-notch testing of metallic materials involves the application of kilonewton-range force pulses on millisecond time scales, generated by impacting the...
We present progress in the development of a dynamic force reference instrument (KDFR) based on the Kibble principle. We describe the operating principle and...
Akobuije Chijioke, Richard A. Allen, Steven E. Fick, Benjamin Reschovsky, Jared Strait, Randall P. Wagner
We describe an optical sound standard in which the sound pressure is measured by using a high-finesse optical cavity to observe the induced change in the...
Michael Gaitan
,
Benjamin Reschovsky
and
Akobuije Chijioke
A new approach to characterize the performance of a laser Doppler vibrometer (LDV). The method uses two acousto-optic modulators to frequency shift the light from an LDV by a known quantity to create a synthetic velocity shift that is traceable to a frequency reference. Results are presented for
Richard A. Allen
,
Randall P Wagner
,
Benjamin Reschovsky
and
Akobuije Chijioke
A sound pressure metrology instrument determines sound pressure from index of refraction and includes: a light source that produces source light; the optical cavity that: receives an acoustic field from the sound source; receives the source light from the light source; produces acoustic-modified
A longstanding and thorny problem in force metrology is that of accurately measuring rapidly changing forces. A key part of the problem is that the dynamic response of force sensors changes depending on the system in which the sensor is used, meaning that an external calibration of the sensor is