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Vehicle Vibration Facility
For heavy road and rail vehicles, vibration and inputs from roads and tracks are a constant – and often costly – fact of life.
To study these dynamics and manage their effects, CSTT maintains one of North America's most versatile vehicle vibration facilities.
Controlled Investigation
Able to accurately reproduce vehicle responses measured in the field, the Vehicle Vibration Facility is an indispensable tool for controlled investigations and accelerated test programs of rail, road and off-road vehicles and components.
In the facility, 4 vertical and 2 horizontal hydraulic actuators shake fully-loaded rail and road vehicles.
MTS Remote Parameter Control software generates precise reproductions of field-measured forces and displacements. Alternatively, the system can generate random, sinusoidal, step, sawtooth or other vibration patterns to sweep through problem areas and pinpoint the cause.
Recreating Operational Environments
Generating vertical actuator loads of up to 26.5 tonnes and horizontal actuator loads of up to 10 tonnes, the facility reproduces the most demanding operational environments for clients to do accelerated fatigue testing, measure vehicle response, and sweep through many other test protocols.
The CSTT vehicle vibration facility: state-of-the-art laboratory testing to ensure on-road and on-track excellence.
