Gerotek Vehicle Testing has, for many years, been heavily involved in vehicle structural and component evaluation. The experience gained in this field enables Gerotek to offer extensive testing and provides clients with a range of services to optimise vehicle design for specific applications.

Gerotek structural testing includes:

A wide range of instrumentation, combined with a team of highly trained and experienced engineers, enables Gerotek to evaluate vehicle structures and components with a high degree of accuracy and repeatability.

Component testing:

The forces which act on vehicle components and the resultant stresses are often difficult to calculate. Factors affecting these parameters are dependant on criteria such as road type, speed and load conditions.

This often results in the need to conduct tests to measure the actual forces and resulting strains, displacements and accelerations. Gerotek can determine the suitable end-user conditions, apply the instrumentation needed to conduct the recording, and process the data to provide our clients with the required information.

Up to sixty channels can be recorded and processed simultaniously. The data can then be supplied in various formats for further processing.

Gerotek has the facilities to handle the tests in a repeatable manner so as to facilitate the accurate retesting of redesigned components.

Quality control is in accordance with ISO/IEC 17025 requirements to guarantee high quality results.

Fatigue Analysis:

Vehicle structural failure can often be attributed to fatigue.

For this reason, fatigue analysis of vehicle structures is an important tool for the designer. Gerotek has the facilities to measure strain on vehicle structures and to do fatigue analysis, identifying possible problem areas. Gerotek will also give the designer accurate data for use in Finite Element Analysis and dynamic modelling packages.

In order to be able to design an optimised component, it is crucial for the designer to know which forces will affect the component. Gerotek will measure all the necessary parameters to help identify failures.

Vibration Analysis:

Vibration analysis is an important part of vehicle structural analysis. The structure's response to certain inputs is crucial to endurance, ride comfort levels, ergonomics and transportation of specialised equipment.

Frequency analysis can be performed on data to calculate, among others, PSD, Transfer and Coherence functions.

Gerotek will supply the instruments and technical knowledge to measure vibrations and to analyse the data to determine the effectiveness of suspension design.