Vehicle Durability & Reliability
- Accelerated exposure
- Correlated to real world usage
- Facilities for truck size & loads
- No public road restrictions
- Light & heavy off highway vehicles
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Commercial Vehicle Durability
On the track, Millbrook has available a comprehensive suite of vehicle durability test schedules developed over 35 years of vehicle test operations. Our specialist schedule correlation team can reproduce tests based on in-service data, or from other facilities around the world, to provide tailor-made schedules to suit the needs of customers.
Millbrook is an ideal location for powertrain testing and validation offering a range of curves from cambered bends to hairpin corners where the powertrain is subjected to lateral accelerations and differential loading. Additional realistic and repeatable loads are given by special features within the tracks designed to input shock loading and low frequency high peak torque loading. Our unique Hill Route enables loading conditions to be sustained for extended periods while a continuous high speed environment is provided by the High Speed Circuit.
Accelerated corrosion testing simulates the effects of corrosion that are experienced by a vehicle during its 'in-service' life, including the very corrosive environments of the North East and South East areas of North America. Correlation between test and 'in-service' life has been achieved by monitoring deterioration and corrosion exposure of vehicles in normal service, and tailoring the procedures to reproduce these parameters with a much reduced elapsed time, providing an acceleration ratio for cosmetic corrosion of 26:1.
More Information
For more information about Durability & Reliability, please call Simon Rowlands on +44 (0) 1525 408220 or email simon.rowlands@millbrook.co.uk, or call our Business Development Team on +44 01525 408408.
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