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I have measured data of a vibration with chirp input were I suspect unwanted shock events occurred. I therefore thought about computing the spectrogram of my time histories to check the frequency content.

I am however not fully sure about what to look for. My idea would be to look for a straight line at a given step in time across all frequencies (because a shock event, like two bodies hitting each other, is normally short in time and excites all frequencies). Is that correct?

Are there other ways to detect shock occurrence?

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  • $\begingroup$ Sounds like a good idea, have you tried it? What did you find? $\endgroup$
    – Jdip
    Aug 15, 2022 at 21:12

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As far as spectrograms go, you're correct. Worth noting, as shocks are time-localized, higher time resolution windows (in Heisenberg sense, meaning narrower in time) are preferred, and so is lower hop_size - otherwise spikes may be show as lower in intensity or be missed entirely.

Comparison on signal with four "shocks" (-- messy code):

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