KCSC designs custom subsystems for multi-axis (MIMO) test frames and is advancing methods for combined-environment testing. If you are building a test frame or need a custom subsystem, tell me about it.
Multi-axis test frames built from arrays of smaller shakers reach test approaches a single large shaker cannot. KCSC works on the engineering that makes those frames perform: the drive electronics, the cooling, and the structural couplings, along with methods for applying vibration and thermal environments together.
This is active R&D at KCSC. The subsystem work below is something I can take on as a custom engagement. If it lines up with what you are building, reach out and I will talk through with you whether it is a fit. KCSC also runs MIMO and 6-DOF vibration test campaigns as a service; this page is the custom-engineering branch, for the hardware that runs them.
Multi-channel drive electronics for small MIMO test-frame shakers and multi-shaker arrays. These are custom solutions for test frames, not replacements for production power amplifiers.
Cooling designed around the frame and the shaker array, sized to real operational duty rather than a single nameplate rating.
I'm taking on custom subsystem work. Tell me about the frame, the shakers, and the environment, and I'll talk through with you whether it is a fit.
Beyond drive and cooling, KCSC develops the structural side of MIMO test frames: damped frame structures that reduce inter-axis cross-talk, and flexure couplings that transmit drive while decoupling unwanted lateral and bending loads. This work is documented in KCSC technical white papers.
Volume 3 of Structural Dynamics Testing in Practice, Multi-Axis Testing in Practice, is in preparation, and a dedicated week at your lab can be built around a MIMO frame.