Measuring Mechanical & Pyro Shock

18 - 19 November, 2025 | Rome
Presented by: PCB Piezotronics Italia and Dr. Ted Diehl

Seminar on successful shock measurement

Invitation to a two-day seminar by Ted Diehl, PhD, CEO of Bodie Technology, in English.


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Learn everything about successful shock measurement. The course includes in depth lectures and the opportunity to have your questions answered directly by the PCB experts.

In this seminar you will learn:

  • Recommended approaches and challenges for making transient acceleration measurements during severe mechanical shocks and pyroshocks
  • Key technology decisions related to piezoresistive and ICP® transducers
  • The importance of proper cabling and signal conditioning, especially for tests that require long cables
  • Various causes of high frequency noise corrupting measurements, zero offsets, and/or other problems
  • The importance of proper selection of data acquisition, sampling rates, and filtering (both analogue and digital)
  • The dangers of signal corruption and how to avoid it
  • Suggested workflows for processing measured acceleration data, including calculations to assess measurement plausibility, methods for checking for signal distortion, and approaches to minimise it
  • What shock response spectra are, how to calculate them, and why PVSS analysis is such a powerful method for evaluating acceleration data

Who should attend the seminar?

  • Test personnel and their supervisors
  • Development and analysis personnel who use test measurements for model, component and full system verification
  • Calibration laboratory personnel
  • Data reduction personnel
  • Anyone whose work depends on the results of accelerometers for measuring severe mechanical shocks and pyroshocks

Catering included

Catering during the event and Dinner included - ideal for socialising with other participants!


Presenter

Mike Mains

Dr. Ted Diehl
Ted is responsible for strategy and technology development for Bodie Tech and is the developer of the Kornucopia ® ML ™software tool suite. He is also a Corporate Fellow at Magic Leap, Inc. Ted has been an active participant in FEA and Physical Testing community for over 30 years, representing companies in several industries. His primary focus is developing methods to solve industrial problems through a creative, yet pragmatic, mix of experimental, computational, and theoretical approaches. Dr. Diehl pioneered many FEA oriented digital signal processing algorithms, initially for use in cell phone impact mechanics, and then expanded to a host of noisy data problems for both physical testing and transient FEA simulations. Dr. Diehl received his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Rochester.

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