I'm looking for new ways to create some dialog on modern/advanced methods for data acquisition and structural-dynamic system analysis. I have a lot of experience (good and bad) to share and think posting as a guest on the enDAQ blog is a perfect venue to help reach and educate engineers interested in these areas.

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Here's a list of my blogs in order:

• Is Your Data Acquisition System Telling You the Truth? Discusses the fact that different data acquisition strategies produce different results.
• How Fast Must We Sample? Discusses Shannon’s theorem and answers some of the mysteries involved in digital data acquisition.
• Sample Rate: How to Pick the Right One Continues the previous discussion and describes the process required to determine the minimum sample required rate for different anti-alias-filter strategies.
• Which Anti-Alias Filter Is Best? Attempts to answer the universal question in its title. The pros and cons of the different filter choices are discussed and my opinion is presented.
• Analog Filter Design Discusses the basic concepts and one of the strategies used to design analog filters.
• Sigma Delta Converters Discusses oversampling converters and their application. The best of all possible options?
• Spectral-Domain Time-Series Analysis: Tools That Improve Our View and Understanding of the Data Discusses analytical tools that we might use to improve our view and understand-ing of the results.
• The PyroShock-Acceleration-Offset-Error Problem: A Proposed Solution A discussion of an error that often occurs in pyrotechnic testing and a potential solution.
• The Independent Observer Viewing our experiment with a separate measurement system to assure that the results are reasonable.
• A Different View of the Sampling & Quantization Process in Digital Data Acquisition Examines the "accepted" approaches to the digital data acquisition/quantizing process and offers a new one that I think is better.
• The Vertical Direction: Measuring- the-Amplitude-of-the-Signal Examines the process of acquiring a discrete data set and the errors involved. A data-acquisition strategy based on the discussion is offered.
• Transfer Function Correction Strategies For Reducing Measurement System Distortions Discusses the source of distortions encountered in measurement systems and strategies that might be used to compensate for them.
• The Fourier Transform-What’s Wrong With It? Fourier Transforms do exactly what they are designed to do: transform a function of time into a function of frequency; however, challenges arise in practical applications.