Dr. Vesta I. Bateman
Dr. Bateman is a mechanical shock specialist and retired from Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque , New Mexico after twenty-seven years of service.  She was the Facility Leader for the Mechanical Shock Laboratory at Sandia National Laboratories where she was responsible for a wide spectrum of mechanical shock testing including drop table, Hopkinson bar, horizontal pneumatic actuator, rocket rail, live pyroshock, and pyroshock simulation shock tests.  She has developed a unique shock isolator for a high shock, high frequency accelerometer as well as the test techniques and data analyses required to evaluate accelerometers and isolated accelerometers.  These technologies have been transferred to industry through Cooperative Research and Development Agreements (CRADA’s).  Dr. Bateman also developed high frequency Hopkinson bar testing with bars made of beryllium and a technique for reconstruction of dynamic forces from accelerometer measurements to assess material crush characteristics.  A paper by Dr. Bateman and her co-authors won the 1992 Henry Pusey Best Paper Award at the Shock and Vibration Symposium. She was awarded the IEST Edward O. Szymkowiak Award in 2003 for her leadership in Pyroshock Testing. She is the author of two chapters in Harris’ Shock and Vibration Handbook, the ISO Secondary Shock Calibration Standard, and the IEST Pyroshock Testing Recommended Practice as well as over 100 journal and conference papers and reports.  Dr. Bateman has a Ph.D from University of Arizona and taught for four years at Virginia Tech at the beginning of her career. She is a member of the Technical Advisory Group for SAVIAC.

 Dr. Howard A. Gaberson
Dr. Gaberson is a shock and vibration specialist with 40 years of dynamics experience.  He worked for the US Navy Civil Engineering Laboratory and later the Facilities Engineering Service Center from 1968 to 2000, mostly conducting dynamics research.  He specializes in shock and vibration signal analysis, and has published over 120 papers and reports.  His recent work includes time frequency signal processing of machinery vibrations, and the use of the pseudo velocity shock spectrum for evaluation of explosion induced equipment motion. He is the Chairman of the Diagnostics and Signal Analysis Committee and a Fellow of the MFPT Society.   He is a member of the G5 Committee on Aerospace Shock and Vibration.  He taught mechanical engineering for eight years and has a Ph.D. from MIT.  He is the 2007 recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award from SAVIAC, and serves on SAVIAC’s Technical Advisory Group.

Course Manager - Mr. Henry Pusey
Mr. Pusey is a Consultant and former Director of the DoD Shock and Vibration Information Center. He has more than 55 years experience on problems related to shock and vibration and is an expert on technical information analysis, dissemination and application. He has organized and lectured at short courses on shock design and analysis, vibration control and related topics. Mr. Pusey is a Fellow of the IEST and the MFPT Society; he is a member of SEM and the Vibration Institute. He has served as Executive Director of the Society for Machinery Failure Prevention Technology (MFPT) and is Technical Services Manager for SAVIAC.

Introduction to Mechanical Shock

Mechanical Shock Instrumentation and Measurement

Certification of Shock

Instrumentation/Measurement devices

Time and Frequency Domain Shock Specifications

Shock Analysis using the Acceleration

Shock Response Spectrum

Revolutionary Treatment of Pyroshock with the Pseudo Velocity Shock  spectrum

Data Acquisition System Calibration/Use

MATLAB Data Analysis

Conventional Shock Testing Machines

For Components and Full Scale Systems

Navy Mechanical Shock Machines

Pyroshock Testing and Simulation

Component Pyroshock Simulations Including Apparatus and Fixture Design

Accelerometer, MEMS, and Materials Evaluations

Hopkinson Bar theory, Materials, Configuration and Certifications   

Commercial Laser Doppler Vibrometer use and Certification

Uncertainty Analysis

PVSS on four coordinate paper (4CP) defines Shock severity level

Severe shock frequency range defined by the PVSS plateau

PVSS measurement of shock isolation protection

Maximum modal stress given by the PVSS

PVSS measurement of filtering;   fast digital filter

PVSS calculation ramp invariant filter theory

Shock polarity measurement with the damped PVSS

Converting SRS plots to approximate PVSS for severity evaluation

PVSS analysis of all simple shocks shows them all equally severe

Continuous systems maximum stress from PVSS

Max modal velocity is proportional max modal stress

Evaluation of equipment shock fragility

Damage capacity you are hidden by data filtering

Review and Wrap-up Sessions

Course Syllabus (click here)

 Course Registration
The Fee for the course is $1700 per student.   The registration is transferable to any person in the same organization. The fee includes a comprehensive set of course notes, a compilation of papers by Instructors Bateman and Gaberson,  a text book entitled Shock Data Analysis by Rudolph J. Scavuzzo and Henry C. Pusey, a Certificate of completion worth 3 CEUs, as well as a Continental Breakfast, Lunch and coffee breaks daily.  A Registration Form may be printed out from the SAVIAC Web Site or may be requested from Sallie  Pusey, SAVIAC Course Registrar (Contact Information below)

Register for the course dates of your choice as early as possible but at least 30 days prior to the first day of the course. After that date inquire from Sallie Pusey to learn if space is still available. Courses are subject to cancellation due to lack of interest.