STRUCTURAL DURABITITY TESTING
STRUCTURAL DURABITITY
Navistar Proving Grounds has structural durability testing experience with the following vehicle types:
Navistar Proving Grounds provides a complete vehicle structural durability testing facility and support services, including design engineering and FEA:
Navistar Proving Grounds has trained personnel skilled in supporting vehicle structural durability testing:
- Passenger cars and light trucks
- Heavy trucks (straight trucks and tractors)
- Buses and motor coaches
- Recreational vehicles (motor homes [class A], van chassis based [class C], travel trailers)
- Commercial trailers (e.g., van, flatbed, tank and container chassis)
- Military vehicles
- School buses
- Medium-duty commercial trucks (e.g., delivery trucks and ambulances)
- Electric and Alternative Fuel powered vehicles
Navistar Proving Grounds provides a complete vehicle structural durability testing facility and support services, including design engineering and FEA:
- Multiple road surfaces (chatter, impact, cobblestone, undulating, resonance road surfaces, high speed oval, gravel, body/chassis twist event and off-road surfaces)
- Durability route and mileage amounts tailored to specific customer needs
- 24-hour-per-day mileage accumulation provided
- Seven-day-per-week mileage accumulation available
- Ballast (load simulation) provided as required
- Road or public roadway mileage accumulation available
- Extreme weather mileage accumulation available including facilities in Colorado, Arizona, Texas, and Alaska
Navistar Proving Grounds has trained personnel skilled in supporting vehicle structural durability testing:
- Technicians experienced in vehicle preparation, including initial inspections, vehicle buildup, ballast installation, in-test inspections and vehicle repairs, among others
- Mileage accumulation drivers
- Engineers experienced in coordinating durability mileage accumulation programs and providing assistance in route selection