This video explores a key design-for-reliability principle known as the Factor of 2 Rule—a practical guideline engineers use to help prevent resonance-related failures.
Avoiding Resonance with the Factor of 2 Rule
VibrationVIEW
Author Tom Achatz
Software Release
VibrationVIEW 2025.1
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Analysis, Test Generation
Getting Started in ObserVIEW 2024
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General
Help! I Have Run Out of Displacement
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Analysis, Test Generation
Common Issues in SRS Test Development
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Data Acquisition, Test Generation
ICE/BEV/HEV Vibration Environments
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VibrationVIEW
VibrationVIEW Report Builder
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VibrationVIEW
Multiaxial Testing Applied
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VibrationVIEW
Rapid Failure Mode Precipitation Testing (RFMPT™)
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VibrationVIEW
Filters in VibrationVIEW
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Vibration Sampling Plans
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Data Acquisition
Does My Test Represent The End Use?
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VibrationVIEW
Electric Vehicle Battery Vibration Testing
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Archived Software
ObserVIEW 2023.1
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Field Data Replication
RecorderVIEW
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Software Release
VibrationVIEW 2023.2
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General
Protect Your Shaker
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General
The VR Hardware
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Software Release
VibrationVIEW 2023.1
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Random
Creating Random Test Profiles v.2022
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Analysis, Test Generation
Live FDS and HALT/HASS
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Calibration
Sensor Calibration
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Software Release
ObserVIEW 2022.1
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General
Automotive Vibration Testing
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Random
An Introduction to Random Vibration PSD
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Archived Software
VibrationVIEW 2022 Release
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Analysis, Test Generation
Octave Analysis in ObserVIEW
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ObserVIEW 2020.2
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Analysis, Test Generation
Generating a Sine-on-Random Test (STAG)
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Analysis, Test Generation
Generate Shock Test from Field Data
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Analysis, Test Generation
Generate a Random Test Using Field Data
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General
Aerospace and Defense Vibration & Shock Testing
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VibrationVIEW
VibrationVIEW Add-On Features
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Archived Software
VibrationVIEW 2019.2 & ObserVIEW 2019.3
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General
Entering Common Test Profiles
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Analysis, Test Generation
Generating Tests with Field Data
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Archived Software
ObserVIEW 2019.2
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Archived Software
VibrationVIEW 2019
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General
Tips & Tricks – Version 2019
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Analysis
Introduction to DSP IIR and FIR Filters
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General
Remote Inputs & Outputs in VibrationVIEW
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Archived Software
ObserVIEW 2019.1
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Archived Software
VibrationVIEW 2018
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Shock
User Defined Transient
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General
Data, Data, Data
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General
Forms & Reports
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Calibration
Calibration Verification on VR9500
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Sine
Fundamentals of Sine
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Random
Fundamentals of Random Theory (Part 1/2)
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Random
Fundamentals of Random Vibration (Part 2/2)
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Shock
Fundamentals of Shock Testing
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Field Data Replication
Fundamentals of Field Data Replication
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Sine
Fundamentals of SRTD plus High-Q Sine Testing
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Shock
Fundamentals of Shock Response Spectra (SRS)
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General
Tips & Tricks – Version 2016
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VibrationVIEW
Transducer Theory
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Archived Software
VibrationVIEW 2017
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General
Shaker Validation
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ObserVIEW 2018
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General
Active-X with VibrationVIEW
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General
Setting Up Your Controller
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General
Multi Axis Testing
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General
VibrationVIEW Graphs
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General
Web & Email Option
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General
Top 10 Support FAQs – Version 2014
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Analysis
Analyzer Functions
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General
10 Things You Can Do With Your VR9500 – Version 2014
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General
Fixing Ground Loop Issues
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General
Connecting Different Sensors
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Random
FDS and HALT/HASS
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General
Test Generation Shortcuts
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General
Common Vibration Test Snafus
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Analysis
Analyzing Data Using Demonstration Mode
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Field Data Replication
Field Data Replication – Version 2015
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Shock
Shock Transient Capture
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Random, Sine
Mixed Mode Testing (SoR, RoR)
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Archived Software
Field-to-Lab / Fatigue Damage Spectrum (FDS)
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Using VibrationVIEW FDS to Accelerate Testing
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Random
iDOF Method of Random PSD Averaging
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Random
What’s Your Product’s Breaking Point?
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Random
Kurtosis Control Methods
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Sine
Perfecting the Sine Test
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Random, Sine
Vibration Testing Sine vs Random
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