News 2005

GIF's new Brake Test Bench

GIF - Gesellschaft für Industrieforschung mbH - in Alsdorf, Germany, has expanded their Engineering Services by a Brake Testing Department. The capacity of this new department allows the simulation of heavy duty trucks up to 13 t axle load or cars up to 300 km/h vehicle speed. Besides the standard tests with constant brake pressure, constant brake torque, mass simulation or temperature programmes it is also possible to carry out step profiles and even high dynamic tests such as the Nürburgring track simulation. This is carried out with the free programmable test bench control and data acquisition, well known from the GIF powertrain test benches. CAN-Bus or FlexRay Bussystems are integrated next to analogue and digital I/O interfaces. Moreover, GIF operates measuring systems for high frequency measuring tasks. NVH tests on complete axle modules or full vehicles can be carried out on an acoustic chassis dynamometer.

This extensive equipment allows brake testing according to each customer’s requirements in every development phase.