ABSTRACT
Increasing performance of aircraft, land vehicles, and other areas in which electronics are installed have increased the vibration, acoustic, shock and other mechanicalloads on these systems. Any electronic system must have sufficient durability to withstand the various mechanical loads expected to be encountered over its intended life. Design of such systems requires the ability to analyze the stresses, strains, deflections, and other measurements of mechanical performance for both static and dynamic loads. These mechanical performance results are compared to material parameters to evaluate the mechanical integrity (see 4.8), or used in life analysis (see Chapter 5).
