ANALOG COMPUTER, SPECIALIZED FOR PROCESSING THE RESULTS OF MEASUREMENTS,

Abstract

General ideas underlying the design of special-purpose analog computers are set forth. A principle of simplified-to-suit-specified-accuracy equipment was used in the development of a special analog computer (SAC) for statistically processing the results of measurement of deformations of automobile tires. Three axial deformations measured by strain gages on a running tire (and converted into voltages) were recorded on magnetic tape. These measurements were applied to the SAC which calculated two principal deformations and two stresses. All 7 parameters were fed to a multichannel amplitude analyzer which determined the distributions of their maxima, minima, and spread over 1000 revolutions of the tire. The SAC comprises 15 operational amplifiers and one nonlinear unit; its overall error is 3 percent. Each SAC unit has a gain of 250 at zero frequency and a reduced-to-grid zero-point drift of 3 mv for 30 min; a passband for a 100-v sinusoidal signal is 65 kHz.

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 27, 1970
Accession Number
AD0706207

Entities

People

  • I. K. Ogorodova
  • M. N. Ulyanina
  • V. I. Katashkin

Organizations

  • National Air and Space Intelligence Center

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accuracy
  • Amplifiers
  • Analog Computers
  • Computers
  • Digital Computers
  • Magnetic Tape
  • Measurement
  • Operational Amplifiers
  • Strain Gages

Readers

  • Aerospace Test and Evaluation
  • Computer Science/Computer Engineering/Data Science/Digital Signal Processing.
  • Mechanical Engineering/Mechanics of Materials.