Mechanical vibration frequency

Hi,
Important Details before I ask my Question:
1. I need to do an experiment that would generally get the frequency of the mechanical vibration response (frequency of the vibration) of a material when stimulated (possibly by impact, tap, and other methods) so I can do analysis on it (Frequency Analysis, Time Frequency Analysis, Wavelet Analysis, etc)
2. Available tools are:
          a) 3-axis accelerometer
          b) Labview Full Development System Version 8.6.1
          c) NI PCI-6251 DAQ
          d) NI PCI-5114
3. This is my first exposure to Labview. I have no experience with this and I'm new to this. So I'm here to ask for support from you guys. I reall need your help.
4. I would have tried learning as much as I can about Labview first before posting a question here but my time is limited for this specific experiment so I had to "dive in" and ask you guys first hand to get a general idea on how to approach this. I am really very unsure how to do this but I think that it is possible to conduct this experiment with Labview because I've read other posts and papers here that have done something very similar to what I need to do.
When I was trying out Labview, I found that it had an NI Sound an Vibration Assistant. But when I tried to open it, it wouldn't open. What are the possible reasons for this?
Can I do the experiment with the given available tools or is the Sound and Vibration Toolkit necessary for it to work?
With my initial readings, I found that the PCI-6251 is what I should use for getting signal.
What VI available from the Labview 8.6.1 Full Development System can I use to:
 -acquire the vibration data and convert it to power spectrum
 -acquire the vibration data and do frequency analysis on it.
I could really use any help I could get right now.
With kind regards,
Jason Ray Crispo

Thanks LV_Pro for your resonse.
"The sound and vibration toolkit is an add-on, you may not have a license for it, in which case it would not activate, or at best, activate for a trial period."
  -yes, i think that explains it. I could probably look for a way to make it work for a trial period - that is if this is necessary for the experiment. I'm actually trying out the Sound and Vibration Measurement Suite for a 30-day trial period. Still not sure of which VI to use though.
"basically look at the documentation for your DAQ device, and try and determine how to connect to the accelerameter. That is the first challenge. What is the output of the accel? Analog levels, digital messages (not as likely, but who knows these days), what. If analog, what are the expected levels, how should it be hooked up (signal lines, power to the unit, etc.) "
 -I already connected the accelerometer to the DAQ device. The output is analog..voltage. I'll go look it up right now and give you the details of the set up in a while and also some details about the accelerometer.
"Then, with that sort of done we can look at how the DAQ needs to be configured to get the best resolution measurement, both in signal level and sampling rate. You will want a moderately high sampling rate, if possible, as you are looking for transient signals and under the Nyquist thereom you need to sample at least twice as fast as the highest frequency expected. Remember, that while your stimulus may be fairly low frequency, what you are probably looking for will be much higher frequency components."
-This is where I could really use some help. I'm not so sure how to configure the DAQ for this certain experiment. I do agree that a moderately, or even high if possible, sampling rate would be used since as of now I can't predict range of frequencies of the transient signal. Though the sampling rate could probably be adjusted on the course of the experiment if necessary?
With kind regards,
Jason Ray I. Crispo

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