Structural integrity is highly significant for a vehicle’s life expectancy – how is the vehicle’s integrity in terms of body construction, chassis or other components such as damping, axles, powertrain mounts or entire assemblies? How do environmental conditions such as temperature, humidity and sunlight impact the vehicle’s structural integrity? The following parameters should be balanced:
During testing, a vehicle has to withstand typical mechanical loads encountered in operation over a specified simulated lifetime. Failure in the form of fatigue, incipient cracks or degradation is not acceptable.
During testing, a vehicle has to withstand typical mechanical loads encountered in operation over a specified simulated lifetime. Failure in the form of fatigue, incipient cracks or degradation is not acceptable.
Before running real-world field tests in dedicated proving grounds, the validation of a vehicle’s structural integrity is conducted as a full simulation on a PC and as tests in automated test facilities in durability labs. Here, road load data is reproduced by actuators. Read more about lab testing
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Supports standard TCP/IP Ethernet and Industrial Ethernet standards such as EtherCAT® to:
Supports standard TCP/IP Ethernet and Industrial Ethernet standards such as EtherCAT® to:
catman is comprehensive and adaptable non-programmable software, conceived for data acquisition, online calculations and analysis by monitoring the entire testing process. It features extensive reporting functions with a graphical presentation of the results.
All acquired measurement data sets run into data analytics, by rainflow cycle counting and the Monte-Carlo methods. The software offers either the creation of a fatigue curve (Woehler) or a variable amplitude fatigue curve (Gaßner).
The efficient and process-oriented workflow reduces cost and shortens testing times.
catman is comprehensive and adaptable non-programmable software, conceived for data acquisition, online calculations and analysis by monitoring the entire testing process. It features extensive reporting functions with a graphical presentation of the results.
All acquired measurement data sets run into data analytics, by rainflow cycle counting and the Monte-Carlo methods. The software offers either the creation of a fatigue curve (Woehler) or a variable amplitude fatigue curve (Gaßner).
The efficient and process-oriented workflow reduces cost and shortens testing times.
A Structural Durability Lab Testing Assessment is one of the last stages before a vehicle prototype can be released onto the market. To create structural test programs covering true market requirements, hydraulic, pneumatic and electric actuators, vibration tables and climatic chambers are used.
An operation profile defines the conditions to be monitored but also the target damages of the accelerated testing. In the lab, mainly strain and force-based measurements are used to characterize loads under replayed real-world operating conditions and calculate resulting accumulated fatigue damage.
To authentically imitate the road in numerous types of dynamic and static tests, different loads applied to the system under test are reproduced:
In Road Load Data Acquisition (RLDA), the vehicle is equipped with additional sensors: Strain gauges (SG), acceleration sensors, string potentiometers, special measuring wheels on one or two axes for force and torque measurement, GNSS/GPS/IMU sensors for position and kinematics, as well as video cameras for recording the driving situation.