AUTOMATED TESTING OF ACCELEROMETER TRANSVERSE SENSITIVITY

A new system for automated testing of accelerometer transverse sensitivity has been designed and implemented at PCB Piezotronics. This paper describes the transverse test system theory, construction, and operation. Transverse sensitivities obtained from the automated system and sensitivities obtained by the manual method described in ISO 5347-11:1993 were found to agree to within the stated uncertainty of 0.3%.