Signals tab – MTS Series 793 Application User Manual
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Fatigue Process
MTS MultiPurpose TestWare®
Data Acquisition Process Descriptions
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Signals tab
Signals Tab
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Signals
Displays the signals which can monitored by the Fatigue process.
Units
Displays the signal units.
Sensitivity
Defines the Sensitivity for the peak/valley detector.
Note
The units are the same as the full scale units.
Lower Range
Specifies the lower boundary of the histogram.
Upper Range
Specifies the upper boundary of the histogram.
Bin Size
Specifies the distance between each histogram bin boundary for the selected
channel.
Note
The units are the same as the full scale units.
Number of Bins
Specifies the number of bins between the upper and lower range.
Material
Assigns a material to the current signal.
Exp. Life
Specifies a value for the specimen life expectancy (the number of tests the
specimen will survive before breaking).
Note
If you do not know it, leave it at 1.0. This value is used by the Fatigue
Monitoring application to display the Percentage of Lifetime instead
of the damage.