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Customized rig in strenght and durability testing

Our customizable test setups are specially designed by our experienced design team to meet your specific testing requirements for your components and systems. These setups are tailored to simulate real-world conditions, ensuring reliable and consistent results.

Key features

  • Tailored design: built to replicate specific operational scenarios based on customer needs. 
  • Cost-effective: our wide range of standard building blocks (e.g. construction beams, connection adapters and supports, levers and linear guides) allow for a quick assembly and significant reduction of the number and cost of custom-made parts.
  • Advanced instrumentation: equipped with sensors to monitor parameters such as applied load, displacement, acceleration, pressure and temperature.
  • High precision: ensures reliable and consistent results.
  • Safety features: includes mechanisms to protect your components and our operators and equipment during testing.

Customized rigs are indispensable for validating component integrity and ensuring compliance with stringent quality and performance benchmarks.

Practical examples of customized test rigs that have been developed for some of our customers:

Example 1
Simplified test rig for simulation of kinematic motion of air spring in durability test

Highlights:

  • Simulation of kinematic motion of air spring with a simplified setup
  • Tuning of input using MTS RPC Pro iteration software
  • No vehicle hardware required (e.g. wheel carrier, control arms, bushings, bearings)
  • In case of a spring strut, the original damper is replaced with an in-house developed dummy damper
  • Setup fits in climate chamber for testing under extreme conditions

Example 2
Full kinematics test rig for simulation of kinematic motion of air spring in durability test with 3 inputs: vertical wheel travel, steering and stabilizer bar load

Highlights:

  • Full simulation of kinematic motion of air spring
  • Other inputs besides vertical wheel travel possible, e.g. steering input, stabilizer load input
  • Tuning of input(s) using MTS RPC Pro iteration software
  • Test setup uses a complete vehicle suspension corner
  • In case of a spring strut, the original damper is replaced with an in-house developed dummy damper
  • In case of unavailability, original suspension components can be replaced with in-house developed dummy parts (e.g. wheel carrier, control arms)
  • Setup fits in climate chamber for testing under extreme conditions

Example 3
2-channel test rig for durability testing of GFRP leaf spring under extreme climate conditions

Highlights:

  • Simulation of kinematic motion of GFRP leaf spring with a simplified setup
  • No vehicle hardware required (e.g. wheel carrier, control arms, bushings, bearings)
  • Setup fits in climate chamber for testing under extreme conditions

Example 4 
5 to 80Hz shaker test rig for 2-axial excitation of towbar travel box

Highlights:

  • Simulation of vibrations in vehicle Y- and Z-direction
  • Tuning of input(s) using MTS RPC Pro iteration software
  • Acceleration and strain measurement on test track with a test vehicle
  • Development of a durability program with the measured data, using reference measurements
  • Comparison of measured strains and accelerations with the measurements performed on the test track for test setup verification