Lab Testing
MSI has experience building high-speed rigs and high-pressure loops for: pumps, compressors, turbines, magnetic bearings, and seals.
Mechanical Solutions, Inc. has the equipment and capability to cost-effectively perform extreme environment testing of various types of equipment and size. MSI has access to various temperature controlled facilities including:
- The US Army Corps of Engineers Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (USACE CRREL)
- The US Army Tank-automotive & Armaments Command Armament Research, Development & Engineering Center (TACOM/ARDEC) at Picatinny Arsenal.
All of MSI's extensive testing capabilities can be applied to the equipment while it operates in a harsh environment.
We can perform the following testing on your rotating machinery equipment:
- Modal “Bump” Testing
- Vibration and Noise, Using Operating Deflection Shapes (ODS)
- Frequency Spectrum Signature Testing
- Cavitation, Pressure Pulsation, and Noise Testing
- Non-contact Measurement Using a Laser Vibrometer
- Rotor Torsional Testing
- Torque Telemetry
MSI uses the following sophisticated equipment and software in its experimental and field testing work:
- B&K Pulse Signal Analyzer, including 35 channels of FFT and Digital Recording
- National Instruments 16 bit FFT analyzer, 40 channels
- National Instruments Strain Gage dyn & static analyzer/ recorder: 16 channels
- Data Physics ACE, 4 channels of very light weight FFT analysis/ recording
- Accelerometers, uniaxial & triaxial, 50 channels worth, various types from PCB
- Pressure transducers, piezoelectric high frequency, 10 channels
- Electric current clamp-on C/T’s, 4 channels worth
- Impact hammers, 5 of various sizes
- Piezoelectric shaker, able to provide significant force & stroke to 20 kHz
- Compressor rig/ flow loop, including VFD capability
- Pump rig/ flow loop including VFD and mag drive capability
- 12 channels of high speed telemetry
- Polytech Laser Doppler vibrometry