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Vibration Amplitude Measurement Definitions

The document defines key terms related to vibration amplitude measurement, including Peak Amplitude, Peak-to-Peak Amplitude, and Root Mean Square Amplitude (RMS). RMS is highlighted as a crucial measure, calculated as the square root of the average of squared instantaneous amplitude values over a time period. Average Amplitude is mentioned but noted as not relevant for vibration measurements.

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Vibration Amplitude Measurement Definitions

The document defines key terms related to vibration amplitude measurement, including Peak Amplitude, Peak-to-Peak Amplitude, and Root Mean Square Amplitude (RMS). RMS is highlighted as a crucial measure, calculated as the square root of the average of squared instantaneous amplitude values over a time period. Average Amplitude is mentioned but noted as not relevant for vibration measurements.

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Vibration Amplitude Measurement Definitions

- Peak Amplitude (Pk) is the maximum excursion of the wave from the zero or equilibrium point.

- Peak-to-Peak Amplitude (Pk-Pk) is the distance from a negative peak to a positive peak. In the
case of the sine wave, the peak-to-peak value is exactly twice the peak value because
the waveform is symmetrical, but this is not necessarily the case with all vibration waveforms, as
we will see shortly.

- Root Mean Square Amplitude (RMS) is the square root of the average of the squared values of
the waveform. In the case of the sine wave, the RMS value is 0.707 times the peak value, but this is
only true in the case of the sine wave. The RMS value is proportional to the area under the curve if
the negative peaks are rectified, i.e., made positive, and the area under the resulting curve averaged
to a constant level, that level would be proportional to the RMS value.

The RMS value of a vibration signal is an important measure of its amplitude. As mentioned
before, it is numerically equal to the square root of the average of the squared value of amplitude.
To calculate this value, the instantaneous amplitude values of the waveform must be squared and
these squared values averaged over a certain length of time. This time interval must be at least
one period of the wave in order to arrive at the correct value. The squared values are all positive,
and thus so is their average. Then the square root of this average value is extracted to get
the RMS value.

- Average Amplitude, which is simply the arithmetic average of the signal level over time, is not
used in vibration measurements, and we will not consider it further.

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