Structural Dynamics & Vibration Test Engineering · Albuquerque, NM

Test planning, execution, and analysis from a structural dynamics SME.

KC Service & Consulting is Kevin Cross: more than two decades developing and running high-consequence vibration test programs, including the Multi-Input Multi-Output (MIMO) and Six Degree of Freedom (6-DOF) methods most labs are still building. From test design and data acquisition through analysis and reporting, plus electrodynamic shaker service and facility commissioning, KCSC is the specialist that test labs, manufacturers, and engineering teams bring in when the test has to be right.

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Kevin Cross placing accelerometers on an instrumented test article before a shaker table test at Sandia National Laboratories
Preparing an instrumented test article for shaker table testing at Sandia National Laboratories, 2025. Photo: Sandia National Laboratories, used with permission.
20+ Years in the Lab MIMO & 6-DOF Unholtz-Dickie Factory Authorized SAM-Registered Small Business Published Researcher
What KCSC Does

One deep discipline, seen from every angle

Structural dynamics is the through-line. Whether the need is running a test, keeping the shaker system running, or getting a facility built right, it is the same expertise applied at a different point in the lifecycle.

Structural Dynamics & Vibration Test Engineering

The core discipline: planning and running the test, then making the data mean something.

  • Random, sine, and resonance test planning
  • MIMO and 6-DOF methods
  • Data acquisition and channel setup
  • PSD, FRF, and modal analysis
  • Field and operational measurements
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Shaker Service & Maintenance

Keeping electrodynamic shaker systems running, and bringing new ones online right.

  • Preventative maintenance
  • Root-cause diagnosis and repair
  • Commissioning and startup
  • Unholtz-Dickie factory authorized, OEM parts only
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Lab & Equipment Installation Consulting

Operational expertise applied before the concrete is poured and the equipment is set.

  • Vibration test facility planning
  • Installation oversight and commissioning
  • Hazardous and remote operations design
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Training & Courses

A new system is only as good as the crew that runs it. The machine, the measurement and the judgment, taught by the engineer who runs the tests and services the machines.

  • Self-paced online course, Volumes 1 and 2: the machine, then the test
  • Open-book quiz after every section, verifiable certificate
  • A dedicated week at your lab, on your own system
  • Volume 3, multi-axis testing, for the advanced user, in preparation
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How KCSC Fits

The expertise you add to the team, not another vendor to manage

KCSC works best as the specialist inside your effort: planning the campaign, running the hardware, and interpreting the result.

For Test Labs & OEMs

Overflow capacity and depth

Principal-level test and analysis support when the schedule is full or a job needs a method outside the day-to-day, plus field service on electrodynamic shaker systems for commercial labs, aerospace facilities, and equipment OEMs.

For R&D & Product Teams

The test side of your effort

The partner who plans and runs the vibration, shock, and MIMO campaigns that de-risk what you are building, and who anchors your models with real measured data.

For Primes & Programs

A dynamics SME on your roster

A structural dynamics and environmental-test subject matter expert who can be written onto a team, brought in on a subcontract, or tasked for focused SME work.

Training & Courses

Vibration test training, taught by the practitioner

A self-paced online course, and a dedicated week at your lab

Structural Dynamics Testing in Practice is a self-paced online course in two volumes: Volume 1 is the machine, Volume 2 is the test, and together they give someone new to the lab what it takes to start testing, under supervision the first time. An open-book quiz after every section and a verifiable certificate at the end. For a whole lab, a week at your site, built around your systems and the tests you run, with seats on both volumes for everything else. Taught by an engineer who does not sell the equipment. Both volumes are on sale now at kcsctraining.com: $1,295 a seat per volume, $2,295 a seat for both, $895 a seat in early access through March 31, 2027.

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Research & Development

Custom test-frame subsystems

Engineering for multi-axis test frames

KCSC designs custom subsystems for Multi-Input Multi-Output (MIMO) test frames, including multi-channel drive amplifiers, integrated cooling, and structural couplings, and is advancing methods for combined-environment testing where vibration and thermal are applied together. Building a frame or need a custom subsystem? Tell me about it.

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Government & Teaming

A teaming partner, in government and industry

KCSC plugs into your effort as a structural dynamics and vibration test subject matter expert: on a commercial project, a subcontract, or a government team. For federal work, KCSC is a registered small business in SAM.gov, with codes and a capability statement on the Government and Teaming page.

NAICS 541330541380541715811310Small BusinessSAM-Registered
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Work With KCSC

Every engagement starts with a conversation

Tell me about the test, the machine or the program, and the date it has to be right by. I'll tell you plainly whether I'm the right person for it.

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