A shock waveform is proposed based on the mechanical mechanism of shock generation in a structure. The parameters in the shock waveform have clear mechanical meanings about the generation and development of the shock. A shock signal processing method is proposed and applied to represent a pyroshock or ballistic shock signal in both temporal and frequency domain using finite terms of the shock waveform components. It is found that complexity and dominant shock distance of a shock can be described quantitatively by the number of waveform components (η 90% ) and a normalised parameter (κ), respectively. Pyroshock and mechanical shocks in different categories are analysed using the proposed shock waveform to demonstrate its importance and generality in shock representation.
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