Our Project
Scope:
The Split Hopkinson Pressure Bar (SHPB)
experiment tests a wide variety of materials under extreme loading
conditions- both high pressure and high strain rate- in order to determine
the material's significant dynamic properties.
The SHPB experiment needs an instrumentation upgrade.
There are four main objectives for this project:
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Provide the customer with a recommendation and corresponding cost analysis for the hardware and software needed to bring the SHPB up-to-date.
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A software interface must be developed to acquire, analyze, and reduce the data from the SHPB experiment.
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A recommendation shall be made for data storage and retrieval.
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A prototype must be built to incorporate the new instruments and software for the testing of the upgraded SHPB experiment.
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Test risk-management for future users.
Our customers are the members of the Air Force Research Laboratory's Damage Mechanisms Branch- those who review and analyze the data obtained from the SHPB experiment.
Needs Assesments:
*Software
must be in Windows-based format
*Data
can be retrieved for 10+ years
*Data
must be retrievable after system crash
*New
software interface must acquire, analyze, and reduce experimental data and
set up the oscilloscope
*Software
language has to be easy to learn
*Signal
amplifier and conditioner must be chosen for safety
*Signal
amplifier and conditioner must be calibrated properly
*Design
should be of minimum cost
Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
Actual Setup Of Pressure Bar At the Institute of Materials Science at Tampere University of Technology
