LMS Test.

Lab Vibration Control

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Complete solutions for vibration and shock testing

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 LMS Test.Lab Vibration Control
Complete solutions for vibration and shock testing

LMS Test.Lab Vibration Control offers a complete 4 to 8 channel solution for closed loop vibration control testing. The
LMS Test.Lab system helps test engineers easily certify and homologate their products, ensuring they can cope with external
excitation and vibration conditions. These can range from normal to very extreme conditions, and also include rough
transportation circumstances.

LMS Test.Lab Vibration Control combines optimal ease of use with the performance and the reliability of an advanced system.
The system offers accurate closed-loop shaker control and a maximum of built-in safety mechanisms which minimize the risks of
damaging costly test items. User guidance and secure automation capabilities deliver maximum productivity and enable testing
teams to meet critical deadlines.

The LMS Test.Lab software is specially designed to work with the LMS SCADAS III controller hardware system that incorporates
24-bit ADC and DAC technology. This tight integration delivers an optimal loop speed and guarantees maximum safety.

LMS Test.Lab Vibration Control at a glance:

• Control and analysis software for sine, tracked sine dwell, random and shock vibration testing
• Integrating common industry standards and supporting user specific test definitions
• 4 to 8 input channels with embedded signal conditioning, 24 bit DSP technology and 105 dB signal to noise ratio
• Safe, accurate and fast closed-loop shaker control up to 20 kHz
• Fully compatible with electro-dynamic shakers and hydraulic actuators
• Expandable with extensive analysis and advanced control features

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 LMS Test.Lab Vibration Control is an entry-level vibration
control solution with high-end performance:

• Maximum productivity and flexibility to qualify products

faster
• Optimal ease of use and built-in user guidance guarantee
a short learning curve
• Extensive safety routines and fail-safe hardware provide
full protection of test objects
• Secure automated testing to cover lengthy and complex
testing campaigns
• Extensive analysis capabilities to efficiently interpret test
results

Qualifying products for real-life operating conditions

LMS Test.Lab Vibration Control helps test engineers qualify whether a

product will withstand normal to extreme operating or transportation
conditions. LMS Test.Lab offers a complete and fully integrated
solution to reproduce vibration environments, supporting basic
functional testing up to complex life cycle testing. The system can
easily be extended with advanced analysis tools to further support
engineers in product development.

LMS Test.Lab Vibration Control supports qualification testing through

closed-loop shaker control, using 4 to 8 simultaneous ICP or voltage
channels for control or measurement. With a focus on qualifying
components, the LMS Test.Lab system is designed for long-duration
durability testing including online damage monitoring and trend
analysis.

Supporting common standards – offering maximum

flexibility

The LMS Test.Lab Vibration Control system supports random, swept

sine, tracked sine dwell, shock and combined test modes. LMS Test.
Lab Vibration Control integrates all common industry standards for
vibration and shock testing. In addition, the system offers a high
degree of flexibility in vibration test definition to support non-standard
test specifications, allowing the usage of more complex test profiles
derived from field data using test tailoring. This provides a safe,
accurate and fast reproduction of the target reference spectra on a
shaker installation, using up to 8 control/measurement channels.

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Convenience, productivity and safety

Smart test routines for optimal productivity

Smart test routines and the intuitive user interface of LMS Test.Lab Vibration Control
deliver optimal productivity throughout the testing cycle. Users directly launch predefined
standard test campaigns from their desktop, without having to worry about specific
parameter settings. The test procedures embed all the details on the actual test setup
and can be complemented with digital images. All test results are automatically annotated
with consistent header information and stored in a searchable database, together with full
information on the test setup and the complete test logging.

• Predefined test procedures

• Searchable databases for data and reports
• File-explorer based data navigator
• Test procedures embed test details and setup information
Predefined test procedure including
formatted user attributes, notes and an
attachment describing the details of the
test setup.

Vibration control made easy

The LMS Test.Lab system guides users in the definition of standard and more complex test
profiles, which eliminates possible errors before starting the actual test. The system also
supports the definition of schedules for complex endurance programs, including loops
and the execution of external applications. For trend analysis, automatic measurements
can easily be programmed and scattered during each level of the test. An embedded
digital scope assists the operator in troubleshooting the measurement setup and quickly
diagnosing possible problems.

• Expert system for optimal user guidance during test processes

• Digital scope to troubleshoot possible problems
• Ready for all common industry standards
• No need for tedious post-processing thanks to online processing and automated trend
Embedded digital scope for fast setup analysis
troubleshooting. Multiple channels can
be displayed simultaneously in time or
frequency domain.

Full test object protection

LMS Test.Lab includes a fully automated SelfCheck procedure, which verifies the control
loop for integrity and safety before running the actual test. The SelfCheck procedure starts
with measuring the background noise on all channels, after which it injects a low-level
shaped random into the loop. It then automatically ramps up the amplitude in user-defined
stages until a specified signal-to-noise ratio is met, or until the drive reaches a specified
limit. Finally, LMS Test.Lab measures the system response using a compensated spectrum,
and prevents the initiation of the test in case of error detection.

• Fail-safe test verification through a fully automated SelfCheck procedure, including

peak and overload prediction
• Full protection against operation beyond shaker limits
• Measurement chain validation for each individual measurement channel
Automated pre-test (SelfCheck) procedure • Prevention of test initiation without proper control feedback
prevents test initiation without proper
control feedback.

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 Safe and accurate vibration control
The LMS SCADAS III controller hardware has been designed with safety as a primary
objective. The entire measurement chain is continuously monitored during testing for open
or short circuits. Overload checks are carried out on several places in the signal paths,
including upfront, full bandwidth checks on the anti-alias filters. Dedicated hardware circuits
guarantee smooth shutdown of the output signals, even in case of power failure, to protect
the structure under test. During closed-loop control RMS and line-by-line abort checking,
the system performs single or multipoint control, drive limitation, sigma clipping, continuous
open channel and overload checks. Fast loop times ensure a safe and reliable control loop
with 100% test object protection.

• Fast, accurate and reliable control loops

• Fail-safe hardware with smooth shutdown guaranteed, communication time-outs,
Comprehensive feedback on line-by-line continuous overload monitoring
abort status through bar display. • Fail-safe software developed according to ISO 9001 standards with extensive quality
control

Secure automated testing

The test sequencing scheduler in LMS Test.Lab increases safety and productivity in case of
product tests that require complex and extensive test profiles. Swept sine, random, shock
and combined modes tests can be automatically sequenced, repeated and synchronized
with external equipment. Alarms are permanently checked to properly interrupt the vibration
control test and the external equipment when required. The measured data and run logging
are automatically saved in the LMS Test.Lab project database. E-mail or SMS messages can
automatically be sent to keep the operator up-to-date on the progress of the test.

• Efficient long duration test monitoring

• Sine, random, shock control, combined modes sequencing
• Vibration test synchronization with external equipment like climatic chambers

Synchronization of vibration testing with

functional or climatic testing is supported
through digital I/O based remote control.

Flexible analysis and effective communication

In addition to the online processing capabilities, LMS Test.Lab Vibration Control offers
analysis tools for the most demanding testing campaigns. With the help of intuitive data
navigation, user attribute-based search, comprehensive analysis functions and powerful
displays, users can quickly visualize and interpret data, and analyze test results. LMS
Test.Lab automatically generates reports with a single mouse click, which eliminates the
extensive effort to document the entire test campaign. Full compatibility with Microsoft
Office and embedded support of OLE/ActiveX technologies turns static reports into
dynamic information files. Readers can dynamically adapt axis scaling, add cursors and
change legends to create their own customized view on the test results. LMS Test.Lab
Vibration Control enables testing teams to move beyond the simple “passed or failed” test
result, and to effectively visualize, analyze, report and share their work with others.

Activating the Animation tab upon • Comprehensive analysis functions provide full insight into test results
completion of sine control test for structural • Automated and customizable report generation for test setup, SelfCheck, run logging
analysis. and test data
• Embedded ActiveX support animates static reports

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 LMS Test.Lab Vibration Control - Standard
LMS Test.Lab Vibration Control - Standard offers a complete solution for the Features
certification and homologation of products and components, to ensure they can • Swept sine control
cope with external excitation and vibration conditions (normal operations, extreme • Tracked sine dwell
operations, transport). It includes the LMS SCADAS 302VB front-end with 4 channels • Random control
for control and measurement, the LMS Test.Lab Desktop - Standard and all • Shock control (classical pulse, measured
LMS Test.Lab Vibration Control applications. pulse and shock response analysis)
• Control bandwidth up to 20 kHz
• Single and averaged, minimum, maximum
LMS Test.Lab includes reliable, efficient and robust control algorithms and delivers
or weighted multi-point control strategy
a safe, accurate and fast reproduction of the target test profiles on electro-dynamic • Real-time calculation and
shaker or hydraulic actuator installations. The Test.Lab controller is configurable to online visualization
support single and averaged, minimum, maximum or weighted multi-point control • Supports all common industry standards
strategies from 0.025Hz up to 20kHz control bandwidth. • Non-standard user specific test profiles
• Integrated Digital Scope and SelfCheck
During closed-loop control, the system combines monitoring functions, simultaneous • Automated reporting
acquisition, processing and visualization of all control and measurement channels with
immediate feedback on test progress and control quality. For long duration testing,
users can activate an automated trend analysis, including a comparison with previous
measurements, without interrupting the test sequence.

The test setup is simplified with a consistent mapping between common industry Benefits
standards and the LMS Test.Lab Vibration Control – Standard test parameter • Novice users can get started
definition. The ergonomic control panel shows all critical information at any time and with minimal training
offers a wide choice of online display options and clear abort and overload messages. • Built-in user guidance increases
At all times, test operators are presented the required information to make the right efficiency and minimizes errors
decision. • Full protection of the tested objects
• Extensive analysis capabilities to
efficiently interpret test results
• Smooth reporting to easily share results

Simultaneous online processing of harmonic, RMS, Random control with user configurable display
peak and average estimators during sine control. improve ease of use for operators.

Automatic resonance identification for easy tracked MIL-STD and GAM-EG-13 standards compatible
sine dwell testing. system for shock control.

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 LMS Test.Lab Vibration Control - Advanced
LMS Test.Lab Vibration Control - Advanced consists of all the modules of LMS Test.Lab Features
Vibration Control - Standard, supplemented with the LMS Test.Lab Desktop - Advanced • Scheduler for swept sine, random
and LMS Test.Lab Test Sequencing modules. and shock test modes
• Remote communication
LMS Test.Lab Vibration Control Advanced complements the standard solution with a • Communication with external equipment
test sequencing scheduler for secured automated testing. This scheduler allows the • Test status report via e-mail or SMS
fully secured automation of unattended long-duration qualification tests with multi- • Parameter locking
• Workflow tuning
type vibration control. It can mix all the test modes (swept sine, random and shock),
do loops, pause commands and a variety of automated pre-test options. In addition,
it is possible to automatically run a MS Windows program as part of the schedule,
for example to keep the operator up to date on the progress of the test sequence via
e-mail or SMS. Through the digital I/O based remote control, the system can control
other equipment in the lab and synchronize vibration testing with e.g. functional or
climatic testing.

The advanced solution also offers a set of customization capabilities to adapt the
LMS Test.Lab user environment and tune the workflow of the testing process. Users
create their dedicated test procedures by locking specific parameters to fixed values.
The workflow tuning also extends the usage of the system from vibration qualification
testing to more advanced noise and vibration refinement tests. Dedicated noise Benefits
and vibration analysis add-ins are easily activated and become an integral part of • Secure automation of long
the LMS Test.Lab vibration qualification workflow. 3D visualization of measurement duration test schedules
results for structural analysis or access to any other LMS Test.Lab analysis module is • Control peripheral equipment
only one click away. This eliminates tedious data exports to more advanced analysis during the vibration test
applications. • Customize the vibration qualification
testing workflow to specific procedures
• Extend vibration qualification test to
advanced refinement analyses

Test sequencing allows secured automated testing in Undesired parameters can be locked to fixed values
case of long duration endurance tests. using parameter locking.

Test sequencing combines vibration and temperature The application workflow can be enriched with
tests by remote control of the climate chamber. advanced analysis tools.

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 LMS Test.Lab Vibration Control – Control options
LMS Test.Lab Sine Notching and LMS Test.Lab Random Response Limiting
LMS Test.Lab Sine Notching and LMS Test.Lab Random Response Limiting enable users to
effectively protect test items against over-testing. While the average control signal level will
match its reference spectrum, the response at particular points of the tested object may be
very different, due to the resonances of the device under test. The vibration level at any channel
(control or measurement) is limited by an auxiliary reference profile for maximum protection of
the test item.

Combined Modes
The LMS Test.Lab Sine on Random (SoR) module offers the possibility to define a background
noise level combined with up to ten fixed and sweeping sine tones. LMS Test.Lab Random
on Random (RoR) option offers the user the possibility to define a background noise level
combined with an unlimited number of fixed and sweeping narrow-band signals. Both options
in combination with LMS Test.Lab Random Control allow the definition of complex profiles,
typically called Sine on Random on Random (SoRoR).

LMS Test.Lab Shock Response Synthesis

LMS Test.Lab Shock Response Synthesis synthesizes a time waveform that corresponds to a
user defined shock response using a series of superimposed wavelets. The synthesis module is
seamlessly integrated in the shock control workbook.

LMS Test.Lab Mission Synthesis

LMS Test.Lab Mission Synthesis helps define test specifications for single axis random and
swept sine vibration testing from measured load data. Resulting test specifications are equal in
damage and are accelerated for faster run times. Test tailoring methods as described in industry
standards such as GAM EG-13, MIL-STD 810F and NATO AECTP 200 are used for this purpose.
Multiple acceleration loading environments (defined in either time or frequency domain) are
analyzed for fatigue potential by calculating MRS (maximum response spectrum) and FDS
(fatigue damage spectrum).

LMS Test.Lab Single Axis Waveform Replication

LMS Test.Lab Single Axis Waveform Replication gets field data to the shaker in fewer steps
and extends current testing techniques from classical sine, tracked sine, random and shock
control to long-duration time waveform replication. The easy-to-use, native MS Windows
software requires little training and helps operators automate very long duration tests with full
security. The workflow-based user interface of LMS Test.Lab assists the user throughout the
complete test.

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LMS Test.Lab Vibration Control – Hardware options
DAC Shutdown Control Unit
The DAC Shutdown Control Unit offers remote shutdown control. It is designed as a hardware
backup of the software controlled shutdown. The use of a removable key prevents unauthorized
enabling after a shutdown procedure. In addition, the DSCU includes two BNC connectors with
normally open and normally closed contacts for connecting external safety devices. The DSCU
is connected to the LMS SCADAS III frame via three-pole LEMO connectors and a 10-meter long
cable.

Expand the LMS SCADAS 302VB to 8 measurement channels

The LMS SCADAS 302VB is delivered with 4 channels (SP92-B and PQA). It has one free slot
which can be used to expand to an 8-channel system. For higher channel count systems the
SC302VB frame can be replaced by the LMS SCADAS 310WV (up to 36 measurement channels)
or the LMS SCADAS 316 (up to 60 measurement channels).

Remote Control
The 20 button remote control unit connects to the host computer through USB and supports
the LMS Test.Lab Vibration Control commands for operator control. It provides a convenient
way to control levels, sweep direction and progress, shock firing, etc.

LMS Test.Lab Vibration Control – Analysis options

LMS Test.Lab Time Recording during Sine and Tracked Sine Dwell
This module enables the recording of continuous time histories parallel to online analysis
based on fixed sampled spectra, without jeopardizing the performance of the control loop. The
recorded throughput data are directly written to LMS TDF (Time Data Format) on a PC hard disc.

LMS Test.Lab Geometry and LMS Test.Lab ODS & Time Animation
LMS Test.Lab Geometry is designed to build a geometrical definition of test structures, which
can be used to visualize measurement and analysis results in a 3D view. Deformation shapes
of the structure can be investigated starting from frequency spectra, or FRF or crosspower
information for stationary conditions or starting from time recordings using LMS Test.Lab
Operational Deflection Shapes and Time Animation.

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