Testrigs available in the uk

[RichE]

It seems as if several uk teams will be building various testrigs for their cars. I thought it might be more useful for everyone if we shared the same testrigs, to allow accurate benchmarking and to reduce costs. At Cardiff we are building a modular tosional testrig that will attach to wheel hubs. We are also developing our own hydraulic shock dyno and probably some inertia test rigs as well.
What do you think? Who is interested?

Cardiff Uni
FS Team Manager

[RichE]

It seems as if several uk teams will be building various testrigs for their cars. I thought it might be more useful for everyone if we shared the same testrigs, to allow accurate benchmarking and to reduce costs. At Cardiff we are building a modular tosional testrig that will attach to wheel hubs. We are also developing our own hydraulic shock dyno and probably some inertia test rigs as well.
What do you think? Who is interested?

Cardiff Uni
FS Team Manager

[dancin stu]

yeah i agree, definately be interested in combining resources, especially for inertial testing and complince testing.

torsional testing i have a great deal of experience of, designed and built a rig last year on my placement year and did approximately 3 months testing with. wasnt too hard to build, if youve got good fabrication skills, itll take about a weeks hard work i reckon. only problem i could see with adapting mine, is that it was huge, and was located on a huge surface plate, which the uni dont have. shouldnt be too much trouble to adapt that one, might have access to it for my team but i would very much doubt others. if people are interested, i could probably sort some photos out.

i know that Prodrive has an inertial testing rig, dunno if they rent it out, could be an avenue worth investigating, if say a bunch of teams rented it out for a day and all went down, like what happens at MIRA sometimes with their full scale wind tunnel.

[clausen]

What's inertial testing?

Are you talking about measuring the moment of inertia?

Regards

Paul Clausen
Uni of Adelaide

[dancin stu]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by clausen:
What's inertial testing?

Are you talking about measuring the moment of inertia?

Regards

Paul Clausen
Uni of Adelaide<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

yes, in yaw, pitch and roll

[RichE]

Forgot to mention, we are only a few weeks away from having quite a sophisticated engine dyno set up to run our Honda F4i. I don't know if we would be able to let other teams use it though, I will find out.
Rich

Cardiff Uni
FS Team Manager

[ben]

John Wood at MIRA is on the FSTudent commitee it might be worth calling him. Can you say K&C rig...

In terms of torsion testing - we do have big surface plates and were planning to design a rig around those.

Ben

University of Birmingham
www.ubracing.co.uk (http://www.ubracing.co.uk)

[dancin stu]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by ben:
John Wood at MIRA is on the FSTudent commitee it might be worth calling him. Can you say K&C rig...

<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

ooh yes! nice bit of force based roll centre calculation