PIEZOELECTRIC SENSORS FOR DYNAMIC PRESSURE MEASUREMENTS PRESSURE CATALOG PRESSURE AND FORCE SENSORS DIVISION HelpingPrecisionPrecision you QuartzQuartz make ShearShear better ICPICP dynamic® Accelerometers measurements ...with quality, innovative instruments! Pressure and Force Sensors Group For 30 years, PCB has been manufacturing piezoelectric sensors for dynamic pressure, force, vibration, and shock measurements. This extensive experience in the world of dynamic measurements has made PCB a leader in high quality piezoelectric instrumentation. PCB’s commitment to customer satisfaction through the continued investment in research, development, and manufacturing capabilities has enabled us to obtain significant roles in these and other important test situations: • General Motors/Harrison — research on air-conditioning compressor pressure dynamics • General Electric — measure power cogeneration plant pressure • Roush Technologies — analysis of automotive engine combustion pressure • Southwest Research Institute — measure underwater blast • Westinghouse — sense acoustic noise in closed- loop, high-temperature cooling systems • U.S. Army — measure large gun ballistic and free-field blast pressures • Rocketdyne — measure pressures in space shuttle rocket motors • Valmet — monitor paper slurry dynamic pressures • NASA (MSFC) — measure free field space shuttle acoustics 24-hhour “SensorLine” ~ Call 716-6684-00001 Research and Development Recognizing that dynamic measurements are seldom routine, Working along with customers, PCB continually improves PCB has introduced a 24-hour sensor hotline. When you and develops new products to meet more demanding experience an unexpected measurement problem, call the PCB dynamic pressure measurement applications. Improved “SensorLine” Saturday, Sunday, or after hours to talk with an methods of dynamic calibration have been developed to application specialist. evaluate the performance characteristics of new sensors. Satisfaction Guarantee Quality We stand behind our products to ensure they operate PCB is an ISO-9001 facility registered by the Underwriters properly for your application. If for any reason you are not Laboratory, Inc. All quality concerns are addressed by a satisfied, contact us immediately to discuss repair, exchange, quality committee consisting of members from each or credit. Our standard product warranty is one year. If at any department of PCB. Responsibility is assigned for resolving time, however, our products do not meet your expectations, the concern to the customer’s satisfaction, corrective action is feel free to call and talk with a application specialist. initiated, and the customer is notified of concern resolution. ICP® Sensors Capabilities PCB offers the broadest piezoelectric line of charge and ICP PCB, a self-sufficient, fully-equipped manufacturing facility, sensors for dynamic pressure, force, shock, and vibration strives to provide you with what you want, when you want it, measurements. What is ICP? It is a registered trademark that at a reasonable price. Do not hesitate to call to ask one of uniquely identifies PCB’s sensors incorporating built-in our applications engineers for product modifications to electronics. Many manufacturers of FFT analyzers and data better suit your application, or to talk to our customer service collectors incorporate “ICP-Inputs” for coupling directly to personnel for expedited delivery or sample hardware needs. our ICP sensors. OtherOther ProductsProducts andand ServicesServices In addition to the dynamic pressure sensors featured in this Selection Guide, PCB offers a broad line of piezoelectric sensors and signal conditioners for measuring dynamic force, shock, and vibration. Consult the factory or a field representative for additional information or assistance on the complete line of products offered by PCB. PCB PRODUCTS AND SERVICES: CUSTOM PRODUCTS PCB offers product modification, special mounting adaptors, FORCE SENSORS-PPFS DIVISION special tests and calibration services to make PCB sensors bet- Toll Free: 888-684-0011 ter suited to your application needs. Call, fax, or E-mail your E-mail: [email protected] request to one of our applications engineers (see page vi). FAX: 716-686-9129 Dynamic quartz force sensors monitor compression, tension, THE MODAL SHOP INC (TMS) and impact forces involved with the forming, crimping, Toll Free: 800-860-4867 stressing, welding, machining, or testing of mechanical E-mail: [email protected] parts, structures, machines, and tablet presses. A full line of FAX: 513-458-2172 ICP® and charge mode models are available. The Modal Shop, located in Cincinnati to maintain close technical ties with the Structural Dynamic Research Lab of ACCELEROMETERS-SSVS DIVISION University of Cincinnati, recently became a PCB Group Toll Free: 888-684-0013 Company. The Modal Shop technology is primarily focused E-mail: [email protected] to serve the modal and vibro-acoustics structural test markets FAX: 716-685-3886 with a broad line of modal sensors, structural excitation prod- PCB offers the broadest commercial line of piezoelectric vibra- ucts, sonic digitizers, precision microphones, low cost tion and shock accelerometers. Shear structured quartz and acoustic arrays, calibration equipment and rental systems for ceramic designs incorporating integral electronics include envi- large channel testing. ronmental stress screening, high frequency, miniature, shock, pyroshock, ring-shaped, triaxial, flight-tested, low profile, TMS STRUCTURAL TESTING PRODUCTS high temperature, seismic, low cost and industrial. PCB also Lightweight sensors and computer-controlled signal condition- ii now offers capactive accelerometers for measurements down ers provide an integrated systems approach at a lower cost to DC for low frequency steady-state applications. per-channel. A complete range of impulse hammers are avail- able for testing very small turbine blades and PC boards to ACTUATORS-AAVC DIVISION extremely large structures, such as buildings, floors, or Toll Free: 888-684-0013 bridges. These products, manufactured at the PCB Piezotronics PCB’s Active Vibration Control (AVC) Division provides factory in Depew, NY, are engineered and marketed by The piezoelectric vibration generators (actuators) for structural Modal Shop, a PCB Group Company. research and testing. When implemented in a computer-con- trolled feedback loop, piezo actuators offer active vibration TMS MICROPHONES AND ACOUSTIC ARRAYS control for vibration reduction and silencing applications. The The Gunnar Rasmussen "Signature Series" precision con- new ICP piezoelectric strain sensor is now available for denser microphones, preamps and power modules are measuring small dynamic strain on top of large static loads. offered through The Modal Shop. These microphones incor- porate four decades of proven design experience in MACHINERY VIBRATION MONITORING acoustic measurement technology. The Modal Shop also Industrial Monitoring Instrumentation (IMI), a division of offers the "Acousticel"™, a low cost microphone for large PCB, provides rugged, industrial-grade vibration sensors, channel vibro acoustic testing. electronics, and accessories for predictive maintenance and machinery health-monitoring applications. OCEANA SENSOR TECHNOLOGIES, INC. Phone: 757-426-3678 SIGNAL CONDITIONERS Oceana Sensor Technologies (OST), a PCB Group Company, A complete line of ICP sensor signal conditioners and located in Virginia Beach, specializes in the automated assem- charge amplifiers is offered by PCB. Signal conditioners are bly of high volume, low cost sensors for automotive, appli- offered with battery or line power, in single or multichannel ance, industrial machinery and OEM instrument markets. configurations, and with or without gain adjust. Additional meters, switches, relays, integrators, and computer-con- PCB PIEZOTRONICS EUROPE GmbH trolled modules are also available. Fax: 4-924-627-4099 PCB Piezotronics Europe GmbH located in Germany CALIBRATORS provides stock in Europe with overnight delivery service. PCB, and its Modal Shop division, offers a wide variety of calibration systems including low and high pressure TESTING SERVICES dynamic calibrators, shock tube, integrated accelerometer calibration workstation and microphone acoustic array Virtually all PCB sensors are supplied with an individual calibrators. See Page 49 for further information on pres- NIST-traceable calibration certificate. PCB’s calibration sys- sure calibrators. tem complies with ISO-9001 and ISO-10012-1. PRESSURE AND FORCE SENSOR DIVISION TOLL FREE: 888-6684-00011 NumericalNumerical ModelModel NumberNumber PagePage ListingListing Model Number Page Model Number Page Model Number Page 101A . .2, 4 112A21 . .3, 4, 8, 10 134A02 . .16, 22 101A02 . .2, 5 112A22 . .3, 4, 8, 10 134A22 . .16, 22 101A03 . .2, 5 112A23 . .3, 4, 8, 10 134A23 . .16, 22 101A04 . .2, 5 112B10 . .34, 35 134A24 . .16, 22 101A05 . .2, 4 112B11 . .34, 35 134A27 . .16, 22 101A06 . .2, 4 112B13 . .34, 35 136A . .55 102A . .14, 17 113A . .14, 18 137A . .16 102A02 . .2, 4, 8, 10 113A02 . .14, 18 137A21 . .16, 23 102A03 . .14, 17 113A03 . .14, 18 137A22 . .16, 23 102A04 . .14, 17 113A21 . .14, 17 137A23 . .16, 23 102A05 . .2, 4, 8, 10 113A22 . .14, 17 102A06 . .14, 17 113A23 . .14, 17 138A01 . .16, 24 102A07 . .2, 4, 8, 10 113A24 . .14, 17 138A02 . .16, 24 102A09 . .8, 10 113A26 . .14, 17 138A05 . .16, 24 102A10 . .38, 40 113A31 . .14, 17 138A06 . .16, 24 102A11 . .38, 40 113A32 . .14, 17 138A10 . .16, 24 102A12 . .14, 17 113A33 . .14, 17 138A11