Thermal Transient Test Apparatus
An apparatus for evaluating the thermal transient behavior of an electroexplosive device is described. The thermal response provides nondestructive testing insight with respect to device design and behavior. Abnormal responses may be indicative of imminent failure and the apparatus provides a rapid evaluation method for quality control.
Constant current test method for fuseable links
Discharging a capacitor through a constant current ballast into a fuse device provides a repeatable method for fuse characterization. The energy required to burn out the device is easily calculated from the area under the voltage trace. A simple, novel circuit provides this constant current pulse which is self‐terminating.
Representation of systems disturbed by wide band noise
In this paper, a method of handling and working with wide band noise is developed. We represent wide band noise as a distributed delay of white noise and use it to reduce a nonlinear system disturbed by wide band noise to a nonlinear system disturbed by white noise. An application of this reduction to a nonlinear filtering problem under a wide band noise disturbance is discussed.