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Operating Deflection Shapes (ODS) Analysis

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Mobility Testing

In mobility testing, accelerance, mobility and compliance functions are calculated. For structures with well-separated modes, estimation of natural frequencies and damping ratios is possible. Often done during troubleshooting using hammer testing.

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Operating Deflection Shapes (ODS) Analysis

A versatile application for determining the vibration patterns of machinery and structures under various operating conditions such as engine speed and ambient forces. Our ODS systems guide you through the entire measurement and analysis process.

rail illustration outline

Operating Deflection Shapes (ODS) Analysis

A versatile application for determining the vibration patterns of machinery and structures under various operating conditions such as engine speed and ambient forces. Our ODS systems guide you through the entire measurement and analysis process.

Operating Deflection

Operating Deflection Shapes (ODS) Analysis

A versatile application for determining the vibration patterns of machinery and structures under various operating conditions such as engine speed and ambient forces. Our ODS systems guide you through the entire measurement and analysis process.

Mobility Testing

Mobility Testing

A versatile application for determining the vibration patterns of machinery and structures under various operating conditions such as engine speed and ambient forces. Our ODS systems guide you through the entire measurement and analysis process.

rail illustration outline

Operating Deflection Shapes (ODS) Analysis

A versatile application for determining the vibration patterns of machinery and structures under various operating conditions such as engine speed and ambient forces. Our ODS systems guide you through the entire measurement and analysis process.

rail illustration outline

Operating Deflection Shapes (ODS) Analysis

A versatile application for determining the vibration patterns of machinery and structures under various operating conditions such as engine speed and ambient forces. Our ODS systems guide you through the entire measurement and analysis process.

rail illustration outline

Operating Deflection Shapes (ODS) Analysis

A versatile application for determining the vibration patterns of machinery and structures under various operating conditions such as engine speed and ambient forces. Our ODS systems guide you through the entire measurement and analysis process.

rail illustration outline

Operating Deflection Shapes (ODS) Analysis

A versatile application for determining the vibration patterns of machinery and structures under various operating conditions such as engine speed and ambient forces. Our ODS systems guide you through the entire measurement and analysis process.

Operating Deflection

Operating Deflection Shapes (ODS) Analysis

A versatile application for determining the vibration patterns of machinery and structures under various operating conditions such as engine speed and ambient forces. Our ODS systems guide you through the entire measurement and analysis process.

rail illustration outline

Operating Deflection Shapes (ODS) Analysis

A versatile application for determining the vibration patterns of machinery and structures under various operating conditions such as engine speed and ambient forces. Our ODS systems guide you through the entire measurement and analysis process.

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Operating Deflection Shapes (ODS) Analysis

A versatile application for determining the vibration patterns of machinery and structures under various operating conditions such as engine speed and ambient forces. Our ODS systems guide you through the entire measurement and analysis process.

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Mobility Testing

In mobility testing, accelerance, mobility and compliance functions are calculated. For structures with well-separated modes, estimation of natural frequencies and damping ratios is possible. Often done during troubleshooting using hammer testing.

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Services that Calibrate, Maintain and Repair. Solutions that Measure, Analyse and Optimize.

HBK Services and Solutions empower our customers and engineers throughout the world to deploy and maintain test and measurement technologies as well as to optimize the use of data from measurement insights to deliver actionable decisions.

HBK’s service programmes ensure optimal uptime through connection, engagement and collaboration with our skilled service engineers. By delivering calibration, installation, maintenance and repair from our accredited HBK labs and in-field service engineers, HBK empowers the high-quality data and knowledge transfer required for effective customer processes and ultimate successes.

HBK’s engineering services consultants support our customers globally across multiple industries including automotive, aerospace and defence, energy, civil construction, off-highway, consumer products, medical and more, with a key focus on areas such as sound quality and structural health monitoring.

HBK’s engineering solutions monitor the life cycle of equipment, plant, and vehicle fleets enabling operators to improve the performance of their assets. HBK solutions increase the value of existing assets by maximizing safety, and sustainability and optimizing equipment availability and operational decision-making while reducing costs and avoiding inefficiencies.

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Calibration

HBK offers a comprehensive range of both on and off site calibration services. We are committed to working with our customers to deliver the accuracy and the product optimization required to deliver the highest levels of confidence in acquired data. The calibrated data we procure is critical to directly driving key design and operating decisions by providing measurement documentation to minimize the risk of error, and costs in securing product quality. Our calibration services help you meet national and international regulations and legal requirements.

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Engineering Services

HBK engineering services work with a wide variety of products and industries from around the world to improve the noise and vibration performance of their products. The Engineering Services team also offers complete structural health monitoring solutions that include precision sensors and instruments for testing, data acquisition systems and software, as well data analysis services within bridges, rail, offshore foundation and many more areas…

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HBK Assured Service Contracts

HBK Assured is our service contract offering, which is our recommendation for how to take care of your HBK equipment. HBK Assured bundles your needs into one contract at a competitive rate. With our HBK Assured Contract, you can trust the precision of your equipment and know the cost of maintaining it.

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Materials Testing

Our Advanced Materials Characterization & Test facility (AMCT), located in Rotherham, United Kingdom offers a range of material testing services from material assurance to material characterization, and specialized testing projects. With over two decades of experience, the combination of in-house expertise and state-of-the-art equipment, delivers results that enable you to achieve real cost reduction, meet environmental targets, and increase confidence in product durability.

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On-site Installation, Maintenance & Repair

At HBK, we understand the importance of embedded 'on site' and 'in the field' customer collaboration, where being able to experience our customers' challenges is essential when creating the solutions and support structures needed to deliver optimized success. Our field services team are equipped and always ready to be at our customers' side when called upon for installation support, equipment maintenance and essential calibration when data assurance is always a priority.

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Repair, Rental & Demo

Our repair and rental teams work with our customers to deploy robust product and service support schedules with a full range of maintenance and repair services designed to minimize downtime, maximize the life of your equipment, and avoid unplanned repair costs. These include on-site services if it is inconvenient to move your system.

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Improving Products Through Deeper Knowledge

To avoid failures, rigorous test programs are required for vehicles to replicate real customer usage over a wide range of field applications and environments. Developers of vehicle platforms also need to reduce program costs and schedules, which requires optimized, accelerated proving ground test schedules that accurately replicate realistic customer operations without subjecting the vehicle to unrealistic loading conditions.

Case Story: Monitoring the Safety of EDF Infrastructure

The Passy hydroelectric plant, the most important power plant in the Haute-Savoie department of France, generates electricity using water held back by dams and glaciers. In late 2013, major civil engineering works were planned in the vicinity of a 'penstock', or pressure pipe, transporting water from a glacier, and it was necessary to ensure that these works would not have any impact on the solidity of the penstock or its attachments.

Engineering Services: Product Sound Quality

The sound quality of a product plays a big part in how end users perceive the overall product quality. Some product noise is inevitable, but it can often be transformed into something less objectionable or even a pleasant sound, such as the roar of an engine. However, sound quality perception is subjective.

Structural Health Monitoring: New Technologies are on the Rise

Virtually every type of public infrastructure, including bridges, pipelines, tunnels, foundations, roadways, dams, etc., is subject to factors that can degrade it or lead to malfunctions. These structural problems can be the result of deterioration, improper construction methods, seismic activity, nearby construction work, etc.

Engineering Services: NVH Testing and Support

Ensuring the acoustic and vibration performance of a vehicle is hugely challenging and requires expertise in a range of noise vibration harshness (NVH) performance domains. To achieve fast and efficient response, automotive OEMs sometimes choose to outsource the responsibility for NVH vehicle integration.

Case Story: The Disstinct Project

HBK strain gauges and data acquisition equipment were used in a unique experiment performed in the Westermeerwind wind farm in the Netherlands to investigate the damping effect of the sea bed on the loads on wind turbines.

Efficient Predictive Maintenance for Operational Efficiency

Using existing and historical data, mining operations and associated plant processes can be modelled with advanced analysis software from Prenscia Solutions. Our extensive experience in both software systems and services enables us to review and implement more efficient processes and more accurately predict operational and maintenance requirements.

Engineering Services: Standardized Test Customization

Standardization of internal testing procedures is helpful in that it ensures that results are comparable over time and helps ensure that lab resources are used optimally. To increase test efficiency, commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) systems can be customized to support standardized sound and vibration testing.

Industry Solution: Rail Test with HBK

The rail test product range and portfolio offered by HBK for the rail industry covers almost all areas that are relevant metrologically for development, checking, controlling and monitoring. Customers around the world, therefore, trust the comprehensive know-how that HBK has gained over decades of cooperation with the railway industry and application service companies.

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