ME3901EngineeringExperimentation

Generalinformation
Laboratory5:VibrationalMeasurements
CellPhoneVibrations
viaAnalogDevices:SingleandDualAxisAutomotiveiMEMS
Note:TheseaccelerometersweredonatedbyAnalogDevices
throughtheeffortsofProfessorFurlong.

Ifthebeamisdeflectedandthenreleased,itwilloscillateorvibrate,thatisthedeflectionvarieswithtime.Itis
asecondordersystemandcanbedescribedasperiodic.

Ifastraingageoraccelerometerwereattachedtothebeamitwouldgenerateasinusoidalvoltageoutput.The
outputamplitudewouldbeproportionaltothestrainoraccelerationandaperiodinverselyproportionaltothe
frequencyofvibration.Lefttovibratefreely,withoutappliedexternalforces,thebeamwillvibrateatits
naturalfrequency,
lost.

,anditsamplitudeoftheresponsewilldecreasewithtime,asenergyinthesystemis

Thenaturalfrequencycanbequantifiedas:

where(

)isthemassperunitlengthofthebeamandCnisaconstant.
Objective

Theobjectiveofthislaboratoryistouseamotiontransducer(anaccelerometer)tomeasurethefrequency
modesofyourcellphone.Rememberforthistest,itisaforcedvibrationasopposedtoafreevibration.
Therefore,oneshouldnotseetheexponentialdecayofthesignal.
Foreachaccelerometertest,vibrationdatawillbeanalyzedto:
1.Determinethevibrationamplitude,velocity,andaccelerationinvariousunitsofmeasure
2.Determinethecellphonefrequencyharmonics
3.Comparemeasurementresultsasafunctionoftransducerorientation(xvrsyfrequencyandmagnitudes).

MEMSaccelerometers
Inthislaboratory,thestateoftheartAnalogDevicesADXL276dualaxesaccelerometerswillbeutilized.
TheADXL276MEMSaccelerometeriscurrentlybeingusedinawiderangeofconsumer,industrial,military,
andautomotiveapplications.
TheADXL276accelerometerhasameasuringrangeof35g(g=9.81m/s2)anditprovidesanalogoutput
signalswithsensitivityontheorderof55mV/g(forfullsourcevoltages).

Thesourcevoltagecanrangefrom3Vto5.25Vforoperationandiscapableofoperatinginawiderangeof
temperatures.

Tasks:MEMSaccelerometers
Attachasmallstripofmountingtapeontoyourphone.
Wire(solderwithsafetyglasses)theaccelerometertabs.(TheprongsarefacingINTOthepaperonthe
schematicbelow.)

AttachtheflatsurfaceoftheaccelerometertothemountingtapewiththeYdirection(Pinsonrightsidetopins
onleftside)aligned(parallel)withtheshortaxisofthephone.
Connectthe5VDCsourcetoananalogouputchannelontheUSB6229BNCunit.
ConnectPin10andPin7(Xvoltageoutput+and)toananaloginputchannel.
ConnectPin3andPin7(Yvoltageoutput+and)toananaloginputchannel.
CreateaLabViewVIschematictorecordtimefrequencydata.
Tryseveralsamplingrates(128,256,512,1024samplespersecond)
Keepthenumberofsamplesthesameasthesamplingrate.Inthismodethereshouldbeapproximatelythree
rowsofdatawrittentofilepersecond(Atimerow,anotherrowforthexaxisinformation,thethirdrowfor
theyaxis).

Acantileverbeamresult(similartoacellphone,butfreelyvibrating)isdisplayedbelow.

Usingtherecordeddata(andyourVI),determinefrequencymodesofyourphone.
Whataretheaccelerationpeaksofyourphone?
Isthereadifferenceinfrequency,amplitude,etc.betweentotwomeasuredaxes?
Forfuturereference,recallourformulations:

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