1 Overview
1.1 Scope
1.2 Purpose
2 References
2.1 IEEE standards
2.2 ISO standards
2.3 Nuclear radiation test standards
3 Test planning
3.1 Classification of tests
3.2 Calibrated parameter characteristics
3.3 Test plan outline
3.4 Test station log book
4 General equipment
4.1 Calibration of equipment
4.2 Test station power supplies and grounds
4.3 Time and frequency standard
4.4 Precision voltage reference
4.5 Voltmeters
4.6 Ammeters and wattmeters
4.7 Resistance references
4.8 Magnetic field shielding
4.9 Magnetic field generation and measurement
4.10 Frequency synthesizers
4.11 Oscilloscopes
4.12 Spectrum analyzer
4.13 Signal analyzer
4.14 Voltage- or current-to-frequency converters
4.15 Frequency counters
4.16 Temperature controllers
4.17 Temperature monitoring equipment
4.18 Bubble levels and tilt meters
4.19 Autocollimator
4.20 Displacement measurement systems
4.21 Other general commercial equipment
4.22 Specially-built equipment
5 Sensor-specific equipment
6 Mounting fixture
6.1 Fixture mechanical design
6.2 Thermal control of fixture
6.3 Vibration fixture
6.4 Centrifuge fixture
6.5 Radiation test fixture
7 Test piers
7.1 Location of test piers
7.2 Vibration environment of test pier
7.3 Tilt and azimuth motion of test pier
7.4 Active control of test pad
8 Accelerometer dividing heads (or turntables)
8.1 Use of accelerometer dividing heads
8.2 Placement of dividing head
8.3 Thermal control on dividing head
8.4 Alignment of dividing head and mounting fixture
8.5 Wiring to dividing head
8.6 Rotation of dividing head
8.7 Readout of dividing head angles
9 Rate tables
9.1 Use of rate tables
9.2 Single-axis rate table
9.3 Two-axis rate table
9.4 Three-axis rate tables for inertial sensor assembly
testing
10 Vibration and shock equipment
10.1 Use of vibration and shock machines
10.2 Vibrators
10.3 Drop shock and hammer shock machines
10.4 Air guns
10.5 Shock and vibration monitors
11 Centrifuge
11.1 Use of centrifuges
11.2 Lesser accuracy and high speed centrifuges
11.3 Precision centrifuge
11.4 Double turntable centrifuge
11.5 Centrifuge instrumentation
11.6 Other rotating inertial sensor test equipment
12 Environmental chambers
12.1 Thermal control on a test table, vibrator, or centrifuge
12.2 Refrigerated and heated chambers
12.3 Barometric chambers
12.4 Equipment for electromagnetic susceptibility and emissions
testing
12.5 Acoustic absorption and generation
12.6 Other environmental chambers
13 Nuclear radiation effects testing
13.1 Use of nuclear radiation testing
13.2 Basis of radiation testing requirements (radiation effects)
13.3 Total ionizing dose effects testing
13.4 Ionizing dose rate effects testing
13.5 Displacement damage effects testing (neutron and protons)
13.6 Single event effects testing (SEE)
13.7 Thermo-mechanical effects testing (TME)
14 Counter and frequency readouts
14.1 Counters and continuous counters
14.2 Period readouts
14.3 Frequency readouts
14.4 Phase-locked loops
14.5 Other ways of reading out frequency
15 Analog-to-digital conversion readouts
15.1 Commercial voltmeters
15.2 A/D converters
15.3 Voltage- and current-to-frequency converters
16 Temperature monitoring
16.1 General comments
16.2 Calibration of temperature readout
16.3 Types of temperature monitors
17 Other monitoring and commanding
17.1 Analog input signals and signal conditioning
17.2 Analog output signals
17.3 Asynchronous interfaces
17.4 Digital input and output signals
17.5 Microprocessor interfaces
17.6 IEEE-488 bus
17.7 Other interface buses
17.8 Radio telemetry interfaces
18 Computer data acquisition, control, filtering, and storage
18.1 Real time operation
18.2 Initialization and running of test
18.3 Interfaces to computer backplane
18.4 Experiment control and automatic test equipment
18.5 Acquired signals
18.6 Event recording
18.7 Real time digital filtering
18.8 Data storage
18.9 Data transmission
19 Data analysis
19.1 Data file format
19.2 Plots versus time
19.3 Plots of one channel versus another
19.4 Polynomial and other linear least-squares-fit residual
plots
19.5 Power spectral density (PSD)
19.6 Allan variance
19.7 Noise processes
19.8 Time series to verify PSD and Allan variance software
19.9 Allan variance autofit procedure
19.10 Regression analysis and cross power spectral density
19.11 Parameter estimation
19.12 Analysis of gyroscope and accelerometer drift data
19.13 Analysis of data with varying test conditions
19.14 Database of test results
20 Geophysics instrumentation
20.1 Gravimeters
20.2 Tilt and azimuth motion
20.3 Seismometers
20.4 Gyrocompass
20.5 Surveying and GPS positioning
20.6 Star sightings
21 Calibration of test equipment and instrumentation
21.1 Site coordinates, gravity, and components of earth
rotation rate
21.2 Time and frequency references
21.3 Calibration of electrical equipment
21.4 Calibration of temperature measuring instrumentation
21.5 Calibration of other equipment
Annex A (informative) Bibliography
A.1 General Bibliography
A.2 Nuclear radiation testing bibliography