Vibration Package Testing

Vibration testing is the shaking of a product or package to determine its ability to survive in real world conditions.

DDL performs vibration testing on a package or product to simulate one of three environments:

1) Transportation environment
Packages and products must be assessed to ensure that they can survive transportation via truck, air or rail.

2) Operating environment
Many products have to survive vibration in their daily working life, regardless of how they were originally transported. Examples include electronics in vehicles, construction equipment and aircraft.

3) Storage environment of sensitive products
Some sensitive products experience vibration when sitting on the floor of a building, since most buildings vibrate. External factors that cause this kind of vibration include air conditioning, other operating equipment and passing vehicles.

The procedure for vibration testing involves placing the product or package on a vibration testing table, which is driven so that the surface of the table vibrates. The most common types of vibration testing equipment are:

* Hydraulic Vibration
Used for larger loads and lower frequency testing (1 - 500 HZ)
* Electro-dynamic Vibration
Used for high frequency testing (20 - 10,000 HZ)