A study on the band split of power spectral density for a vibration test

A vibration aging test is a part of equipment qualification. When the vibration level is too high for the shaker system, the equivalent test can be accomplished by bandsplitting and/or time-level trade techniques. This paper discusses the power spectral density (PSD) band-splitting effect on fatigue damage and a method for the application to PSD bandsplitting. Three types of acceleration PSDs—band-limited white noise (BLWN) PSD, unimodal PSD, and bimodal PSD—with various shapes were chosen as target PSDs. Oritz and Chens method, and Benascuitti and Tovo’s method were used to calculate fatigue damage spectra (FDS). The maximum values of fatigue damage ratios for all target PSDs were calculated. It was found that PSD overlapping can be used to compensate for the lack of fatigue damage due to PSD band-splitting. An application example of the suggested method that enables conservative testing when applying PSD band-splitting is presented herein.