Capabilities

Structural Dynamics & Vibration Test Engineering

The core discipline. Planning and running vibration tests, then turning the measured response into defensible answers about how a structure behaves.

Structural dynamics is the core of KCSC. The work runs the full chain: design the test, run the hardware, acquire clean data, and turn the measured response into defensible answers about how a structure behaves and whether it will survive its environment.

An electrodynamic shaker with the cover removed: armature, degauss coil ring, and suspension.

Test Planning & Profile Development

A test only means something if the profile and setup match the real environment and the program requirements. KCSC interprets and tailors those requirements, then builds the approach around them.

Test Design

  • Requirements interpretation and tailoring
  • Random, sine, and sine-on-random profiles
  • Resonance search and dwell
  • Shock and transient methods
  • Combined environments: thermal, acoustic, pyroshock, and EMI

MIMO & 6-DOF

  • Multi-Input Multi-Output test strategy
  • Six Degree of Freedom setup and control
  • Drive and control channel layout
  • Cross-spectral and coherence checks

Where KCSC is hard to replace

MIMO and 6-DOF vibration testing is a thin-supply specialty. KCSC has developed and run these methods on real programs, which means more realistic environments in a fraction of the single-axis test time, and a partner who can stand behind the result.

Acquire, Run, Analyze

Data Acquisition, Execution, and Analysis

Valid data starts with the right sensors in the right places and a measurement chain that is verified before the test runs. It ends with analysis that answers the question the program actually asked.

Data Acquisition & Execution

  • Sensor selection and placement
  • Channel setup, calibration, and verification
  • Test execution on shaker systems and slip tables
  • Field and operational measurements

Analysis & Reporting

  • PSD, FRF, and transmissibility
  • Spectral and time-domain methods
  • Experimental modal analysis
  • Model correlation support and reporting

Fixture design guidance and test article handling round out the work, because a test is only as good as the way the article is mounted and excited.

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