Maximum Power Available to Stress Onto the Critical Component in the Equipment Under Test When Performing a Radiated Susceptibility Test in the Reverberation Chamber

摘要

We show, by theory and experiment, that the stress put onto the equipment under test (EUT) when performing a radiated susceptibility test in a reverberation chamber (RC) is not affected by either the directivity pattern or the receiving polarization pattern of the EUT. The stress put onto the EUT will differ from the stress measured by a reference antenna in the RC. We have developed distribution functions for this discrepancy. MOST of the work performed by the reverberation chamber (RC) community has been focused on characterizing the RC. Important contributions to the understanding of the electromagnetic environment in the RC have been given by many within the community, including Kostas and Boverie, Hill, and Lehman. Characterizing the chamber is an essential property in quantifying the magnitude of the stress we put onto our equipment under test (EUT) during a radiated susceptibility test an (RST).