Digital measuring system used to measure forces in up to three directions during vehicle crash testing is now available with analogue signal output
The SmartCrash digital measuring system introduced by Kistler in 2004 is used to measure forces in up to three directions during vehicle crash testing.
The new variant of SmartCrash, with analogue signal output, is compatible with existing data acquisition systems and permits simple cost-effective exchanges with force elements from earlier generations.
Various bus designs for cross connecting the digital SmartCrash elements in a barrier, as well as compatibility with standard vehicle crash control and analysis programs, permit tailor made solutions to customer problems and interoperability with all modern crash facilities.
Kistler says the versatile, modular architecture of its tried and tested segment construction offers maximum flexibility in the design of SmartCrash barriers and permits fast and easy adaptation to the requirements of the current crash guidelines (EuroNCAP, AZT, TRL, etc), which distinguish between head-on and offset crash impacts.
The system consists of SmartCrash elements with integrated data preprocessing and digital signal output (using the MicroDau module from Kayser-Threde or the newly introduced M-Bus from Messring).
Kistler Instruments sxays it is the only supplier of crash barriers using piezo technology, and has more than twenty years' experience in the field of crash measurement technology.
