Abstract:The key of the vibration testing is to replicate the practical vibration environment of the structure accurately. The traditional random vibration test with frequency domain method aims to generate a stationary and Gaussian vibration environment. But the practical vibration environments are always superGaussian, which can cause different damages to the structures compared with Gaussian excitations. Thus, it is significant to study the superGaussian test method. In this paper, the phase selection method and the traditional PSD decomposition method are combined to generate superGaussian driving signal according to reference power spectrum density and kurtosis. A cantilever beam is used for the simulation and the results indicate that the error between output response spectrum and reference spectrum based on the proposed control algorithm meets the requirement ±3 dB in engineering and the kurtosis also satisfies the demands. Finally, a test with a cantilever beam is completed and the control results indicate that most output response spectrum lines are controlled within the error band, and the kurtosis meets the reference requirement.