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Ground Vibration Test/Structures Laboratory

Edwards AFB, CA

The GVT system is designed to perform GVT's on fighter-sized aircraft, modifications, and troubleshooting of aircraft structural problems. Although designed for small aircraft, can be used on all aircraft in the Air Force inventory. The system is a multichannel excitation system capable of four simultaneous excitation points and 1,286 response channels taken in banks of up to 51 channels. Both excitation and response are driven by Hewlett-Packard (HP) 9000 Series 380 workstation utilizing either HP's VISTA Modal Test Acquisition or Structural Dynamics Research Corporation's (SDRC) data acquisition software.

Location

Edwards AFB, California

Approximate — state level, from the record’s listed location

From this record's listed location

Laboratory

  • Air Force Flight Test Center

Category

  • Aviation

Provenance

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