NASA-HDBK-7004C Force Limited Vibration Testing

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). This Technical Handbook approved by NASA 07.30, 2011 . Superseding NASA-HDBK-7004B. 63 p. The purpose of this Handbook is to provide an approach that may be consistently followed by those desiring to use force limiting, without having to conduct an extensive literature search or research and development effort before conducting the test. This Handbook describes the rationale behind force limiting, the hardware required for implementation, the various methods for deriving force-limit specifications, and three flight experiments in which the base reaction forces were measured