Calspan offers a wide variety
of quality products and services associated
with crash test facilities ranging from complete
facility design and integration to supply of
support equipment.
Calspan has extensive experience in the design
of crash test facilities:
Custom designed concrete work for track,
pits, and barrier.
Track roadway and crash facility building
layouts.
Barrier
Options Indoor
Fixed Barrier Testing Facility
Calspan has a variety of bolt-on barrier options,
and will custom design and/or modify fixtures
and instrumentation to customer specifications.
Load Cell Barrier
Calspan has designed and fabricated load
cell barriers to record the vehicle force-time
history at discrete vehicle/barrier contact
locations.
These barriers comply with:
The requirements set forth in the U.S.
Department of Transportation (DOT) National
Highway Traffic Safety Administration
(NHTSA) New Car Assessment Program (NCAP)
test procedure.
NCAP tests employ the same full-scale
frontal barrier crash test procedure stipulated
in FMVSS 208 but at a nominal impact speed
of 56 km/hr (35 mph).
Calspan designs and installs complete
bumper test facilities to perform low speed
impact tests on full vehicles and test carts.
These facilities and equipment satisfy
and exceed current mandated bumper system performance
test requirements such as the Federal Motor
Vehicle Safety Standard (FMVSS), Part 581.
Bumper Test Cart
The universal front mount can accept many
different style bumpers.
An on-board data acquisition junction
box allows for full instrumentation.
Auxiliary on-board brakes are also provided
for additional safety.
A number of motor vehicle crash safety
regulations currently in place throughout the
world mandate that occupant body-region impact
with vehicle components and surfaces within
that space satisfy prescribed injury-limiting
performance requirements.
In its customary role, GPDITS propels
specially-designed impactor massforms utilized
in Economic Commission of Europe (ECE) R12
and R21 cabin interior-system and European
Experimental Vehicle Committee (EEVC) pedestrian-impact
certification testing.
The frame can also accommodate an
optional device to perform Free Motion Headform
(FMH) compliance testing specified by U.S.
Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard (FMVSS)
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