Thank you, this is really helpful. We have the resources but its hard to get the professors time to learn to use them. We use creo at school exclusively but we were only taught in making models and drawings, not simulation, so it would be nice to do as much as we can in creo. I would also learn how to use credo for other things in the process.
Anyway I'm using my phone right now, but pyroshocks can be 10,000Hz or more and last 50ms or less. So you can imagine acceleration vs time (from accelerometer) is pretty useless. Our sponsor has also said computaional methods have difficulty with this high frequency type of shock(tends to overestimate). We have yet to build a physical test setup but or objective first is to hold constant(swing amplitude, impact location, boundary conditions) everything accept one parameter. I would hope to use creo to come up with an initial experimental setup and then further iterate it from there. We hope to be able to match Shock response spectrum outputs(from accelerometer measurements) using predictable variable inputs to the test setup.
I will post up our documentation later, we are still in the first half and due to the complexity of the project our sponsor has extended to next years senior class also.
Thanks again for the help, I would be completely lost without all this.
