Upgrading the Suspension Measurement Facility

摘要

UMTRI has upgraded its Suspension Measurement Facility by adding a digital data-acquisition system to the original analog instrumentation. The addition of the system has improved the efficiency of the facility roughly twofold, allowing reductions of similar magnitude in time required for testing. Additionally, the data describing the response of the tested suspension can now be made available on readily transportable magnetic medium, in IBM-PC compatible files. Programs for the convenient display and reduction of these data are available. These data reduction programs are hardware specific in that they require that a particular commercially available 'graphics card' be used in the computer system.