(ERI: Santa Barbara, CA) -- Earthquakes are only one of the subjects being discussed at the “Fundamentals of Random Vibration and Shock Testing” course led by mechanical engineer expert Wayne Tustin. The course will be held at ANCO Engineers Inc. in Boulder, Colorado, July 9–11, 2012, from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. MDT. Tustin will also discuss the severe vibrations aboard rockets, spacecraft, and satellites en route to orbit, and the less severe but sometimes troublesome vibrations of automobiles and other land vehicles. 

The July course will also deal with accelerometers used in measuring vibrations over the road, over the waves, in flight, and during rocket launch and powered flight, as at Vandenberg Air Force Base. Accelerometer signals are usually telemetered to recording stations. One use of the resulting data is to generate programs used to control vibrating laboratory platforms called shakers. These are used to test parts of future vehicles. Since 1962 Tustin has trained more than 10,000 mechanical engineers in vibration measurement and testing.

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