Patent ID: 7302826

Claim:
A method of conducting a shock response spectrum test on a piece of equipment, the method comprising: establishing a plurality of wavelets, each wavelet having a wavelet frequency and having a delay time; synthesizing the plurality of wavelets to form a shock waveform; conducting the shock response spectrum test on the piece of equipment using the shock waveform; and wherein each wavelet delay time δ k is established as δ k =τ 1 −τ k (k=1, 2, . . . , M), wherein each time τ k is determined by: determining a transfer function for a single degree of freedom (SDOF) system, wherein the SDOF system has a quality factor of 10, and wherein a natural frequency of the SDOF system is equal to the wavelet frequency; determining a shock response history for the SDOF system due to a zero delay wavelet input having the wavelet frequency; and obtaining the time τ k at which a maximax value is detected in the shock response history.