Military Standard 810G (MIL-STD-810G) Testing Training Course

Understanding, Planning and Performing Climatic and Dynamic Tests

Course Description

This 4-day class will provide an understanding of the purpose of each test, the equipment required to perform each test, and the methodology to correctly apply the specified test environments.
Vibration and Shock methods will be covered together and will include an overview of Sine and Random Vibration as well as classical waveform shock testing, drop testing and Shock Response Spectrum Testing. Instrumentation, vibration equipment, control systems and fixture design will be covered. Each climatic test will be discussed individually, focusing on requirements, origination, equipment required, test methodology and understanding of results.

500.5 Low Pressure (Altitude)
501.5 High Temperature
502.5 Low Temperature
503.5 Temperature Shock
504.1 Contamination by Fluids
505.5 Solar Radiation (Sunshine)
506.5 Rain
507.5 Humidity
508.6 Fungus
509.5 Salt Fog
510.5 Sand and Dust
511.5 Explosive Atmosphere
512.5 Immersion
513.6 Acceleration
514.6 Vibration
515.6 Acoustic Noise
516.6 Shock
517.1 Pyroshock
518.1 Acidic Atmosphere
519.6 Gunfire Shock
520.3 Temperature, Humidity, Vibration, and Altitude
521.3 Icing/Freezing Rain
522.1 Ballistic Shock
523.3 Vibro-Acoustic/Temperature
524 Freeze / Thaw
525 Time Waveform Replication
526 Rail Impact
527 Multi-Exciter
528 Mechanical Vibrations of Shipboard Equipment (Type I – Environmental and Type II – Internally Excited)

Discussion, supported by projected visuals and video clips. Commencing with a review of basic vibrations, we will explore vibration measurements and analysis. We’ll compare sinusoidal vs. random vibration testing systems, specifications, standards and procedures. We will emphasize vibration and shock test fixture design, fabrication, experimental evaluation and usage. We will study shock measurement, shock response spectrum (SRS) and shock testing.
Climatic testing will be looked at in great detail, emphasizing required equipment and instrumentation, correct interpretation of specifications and hints to ensure that the tests are brought to a successful conclusion.
The course emphasizes topics you will use immediately. Suppliers to the military services protectively install commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) equipment in our flight and land vehicles and in shipboard locations where vibration and shock can be severe. We laboratory test the protected equipment (1) to assure twenty years equipment survival and possible combat, also (2) to meet commercial test standards, IEC documents, military standards such as STANAG or MIL-STD-810G, etc. Few if any engineering schools teach about such protection or such testing. Hence this specialized course.

Course Outline

Who should attend

This class is aimed at people who need to perform, witness or specify environmental testing in accordance with MIL-STD-810.
It covers all of the Dynamic and Climatic tests described in MIL-STD-810. Are you saying to yourself “I need practical knowledge about MIL-STD-810 testing because my work requirements are:

• My title may be mechanical engineer, mechanical designer or packaging engineer. I design (ruggedize) products that must pass MIL-STD-810 testing. I design products to dynamic and climatic requirements, which I don't fully understand. Then I send a prototype to our lab for testing. I really don't understand what our lab does. I'd better find out.
• I write contracts for or specifications procuring military equipment. I need to understand the requirements of MIL-STD-810. How do I insure that potential contractors understand and will correctly implement the requirements?
• I need to witness and approve testing that is specified to be performed “in accordance with MIL-STD-810”. How do I know if the test equipment proposed is capable of doing the job? How do I know if the data I am given is accurate?
• I work in an environmental test lab. We need to perform tests “in accordance with MIL-STD-810”. How do we perform these tests? How do we interpret the requirements? What in heck is g2/Hz?
• I have been tasked with procuring equipment to perform tests “in accordance with MIL-STD-810”. How do I know I am specifying the right shakers, shock test machines, chambers?

If you thought, "aha - that's what I'm supposed to do" to any of the job descriptions listed above, then instructor Steve Brenner says, "This course is intended for you." It will help you move up your own "learning curve."
A smaller group, for whom the instructor also intends this course: supervisors of any of the above listed activities. Perhaps you were thrust into this responsibility without adequate training. Maybe your predecessor had no opportunity to alert you to potential difficulties. You certainly need to know what your people are talking about. Possibly you had no formal training for your present responsibilities. You need to explain your department's activities to your superiors in the technically correct language. Perhaps you need to decide between "in house" and "outside" testing.

About the Lecturer

Steve Brenner has been working in the field of environmental simulation and reliability testing for over 30 years.
Beginning in the late sixties with reliability and design verification testing on the Lunar Module, the Space Shuttle in the eighties, to semiconductor manufacturing equipment in the nineties, Mr. Brenner has always been involved with the latest techniques for verifying equipment integrity through testing.
Mr. Brenner began his career as an Environmental test engineer with Grumman Aerospace Corporation in New York, worked as design verification and reliability engineer for the Air Force, an Environmental Test Engineer for Lockheed Missiles and Space company, and spent 18 years with Kaiser Electronics in San Jose, where he managed the Environmental Test Lab and was involved with the design of hardware intended for severe environments.
Mr. Brenner has been working as a consultant in the reliability testing field since 1996. His client base includes American and European companies with products:

• Telecommunications
• Automated test equipment
• Airborne displays
• Network equipment
• Medical equipment
• Semiconductor manufacturing equipment
• Automation
• Aircraft instrumentation
• Workstations
• Ruggedized commercial electronic products (COTS)
• Fiber Optics components and systems
• Theme Park Rides

Mr. Brenner's experience includes the entire range of climatic and dynamic testing, including HALT, HASS and long term reliability testing. He teaches several ERI courses each year, USA and abroad. In 2006 he and Wayne Tustin co-authored "Where to place the vibration test control accelerometer?", which is available upon request.

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