ELASPSD Data Acquisition and Signal Generator User Manual

The European Laboratory for Structural Assessment (ELSA) belongs to the Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission. It is one of the units of the Institute for the Protection and Security of the Citizen (IPSC) at the Ispra Site of the JRC. The main facility of ELSA is a large Reaction Wall‐Strong Floor system equipped with powerful servoactuators used to simulate the response of civil full‐size structures submitted to dynamic loads using the ELSAPSD testing system. During a test, the user may want some data to be displayed, analyzed or/and stored in the computer. This can be made through an acquisition object. This manual explains how to use an acquisition starting from the most simple case, which is using an acquisition node with an internal trigger. Each chapter adds new information to the previous one, so it is interesting to read the manual in a sequential order. This manuals refers to the acquisition software of ELSAPSD according to the versions PSDCYC03.DLL and M13.004 of the master controller software and acqui.exe???????.