78
Mechanical shock
which, according
to
damping, tends towards
a
value ranging between
one and
twice
the
amplitude
of the
shock.
In
the
impulse domain
and
especially
in the
intermediate domain,
the
spectrum
has
a
lower amplitude when
the
clamping
is
greater.
This
phenomenon
is not
great
for
shocks
with velocity change
and for
normal damping (0.01
to 0.1
approximately).
It
is
marked more
for
oscillatory type shocks (decaying sine
for
example)
at
frequencies
close
to the frequency of the
signal.
The
peak
of the
spectrum here
has
an
amplitude which
is a
function
of the
number
of
alternations
of the
signal
and of
the
selected
damping.
3.5.
Choice
of
damping
The
choice
of
damping should
be
carried
out
according
to the
structure subjected
to the
shock
under
consideration.
When this
is not
known,
or
studies
are
being
carried
out
with
a
view
to
comparison with other already calculated
spectra,
the
outcome
is
that
one
plots
the
shock response spectra with
a
relative damping equal
to
0.05 (i.e.
Q =
10).
It is
about
an
average value
for the
majority
of
structures.
Unless otherwise specified,
as
noted
on the
curve,
it is the
value chosen
conventionally. With
the
spectra
varying relatively little with damping (with
the
reservations
of the
preceding paragraph), this choice
is
often
not
very important.
To
limit
possible errors,
the
selected value should, however,
be
systematically noted
on
the
diagram.
NOTE.
In
practice,
the
most
frequent range
of
variation
of
the Q
factor
of
the
structures
lies
between
approximately
5 and 50.
There
is no
exact relation which makes
it
possible
to
obtain
a
shock response spectrum
of
given
Q
factor starting from
a
spectrum
of
the
same signal calculated with another
Q
factor.
M.B.
Grath
and
W.F. Bangs [GRA
72]
proposed
an
empirical method deduced
from an
analysis
of
spectra
of
pyrotechnic shocks
to
carry
out
this
transformation.
It
is
based
on
curves giving, depending
on Q, a
correction factor, amplitude ratio
of
the
spectrum
for Q
factor with
the
value
of
this spectrum
for Q = 10
(Figure
3.16).
The
first curve relates
to the
peak
of the
spectrum,
the
second
the
standard point
(non-peak
data).
The
comparison
of
these
two
curves
confirms
the
greatest
sensitivity
of
the
peak
to the
choice
ofQ
factor.
These
results
are
compatible with those
of a
similar
study
carried
out by
W.P.
Rader
and
W.F. Bangs [RAD 70],which
did not
however distinguish between
the
peaks
and the
other values.