Vibration testing facilities

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, ST 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 and 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 ST vehicle vibration facility: state-of-the-art laboratory testing to ensure on-road and on-track excellence.

Contact

Bruce Playfair, Manager
Telephone: 613-954-7968
Email: Bruce.Playfair@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca

General information:
2320 Lester Road
Ottawa, Ontario K1V 1S2

Telephone: 613-998-9639
Fax: 613- 957-0831
Email: inquiries.ST@nrc.gc.ca