Also review fasteners analysis guide and hardware testing .
Sufficient design factors of safety. Steward Observatory has adopted a baseline factors of safety (FOS) and multiplicitve model uncertainty factors (MUF), available here.
NASA Lesson learned: NASA PRACTICE NO. PD-ED-1211: Combination Methods for Deriving Structural Design Loads Considering Vibro-Acoustic, etc., Responses
MSFC standards: DEVELOPMENT OF VIBROACOUSTIC AND SHOCK DESIGN AND TEST CRITERIA STANDARD
Simple rule-of-thumb for small assemblies:
``The RMS vibration amplitudes were applied as a simulated 100g static load applied along each axis simultaneously. This load was chosen to be more conservative than the requirements of the NASA General Environmental Verification Specification (GEVS) which represents a 3-sigma case of applied acceleration due to launch- induced vibrations.’’ [do Vale Pereira, P. et al 2020 https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/smallsat/2020/all2020/121/]
To go to the launch vehicle reports directory: