What is BS EN 60068-2-57 - Environmental testing for vibration about?
BS EN 60068-2-57 is a standard that covers environmental testing for vibration, ensuring the determination of mechanical robustness of electrotechnical equipment and study of their dynamic behaviour.
BS EN 60068-2-57 provides a standard procedure for determining, by the time-history and sine-beat methods, the ability of a specimen to withstand specified severities of transient vibration.
Who is BS EN 60068-2-57 - Environmental testing for vibration for?
BS EN 60068-2-57 on environmental testing for vibration applies to:
- Environmental testing agencies
- Simulation testing services
- Testing personnel and inspectors
- Quality assurance services
Why should you use BS EN 60068-2-57 - Environmental testing for vibration?
Electrotechnical products are subjected to random or oscillating type dynamic forces of short duration, typical examples of which are stresses induced in equipment as a result of earthquakes, explosions, transportation, and short time vibration in machinery. The time-history test consists of preliminary vibration response investigation with sinusoidal or random vibration.
BS EN 60068-2-57 provides users guidance on test requirements and associated parameters, including vibration response investigation, time-history testing, sine-beat testing and mounting, enabling the determination of mechanical weakness and degradation in performance.
BS EN 60068-2-57 provides users guidance on test requirements, associated parameters, severities, preconditioning, initial measurements, testing, intermediate measurements, recovery, final measurements and test report, enabling users to perform vibration testing on electrotechnical products.
With obedience and compliance to BS EN 60068-2-57, users can assess the product response to vibration, ensuring the mechanical robustness of electrotechnical products and studying their dynamic behaviour.
What’s changed since the last update?
BS EN 60068-2-57:2013 supersedes BS EN 60068-2-57:2000 and BS EN 60068-2-59:1993, which are now withdrawn.
Changes in BS EN 60068-2-57:2013 include:
- Editorially combines EN 60068-2-57 and EN 60068-2-59
- The title has been modified to include a sine beat method