Reliability Testing Using the Vehicle Durability Simulator

Abstract

This Test Operations Procedure (TOP) describes methods for performing reliability testing using the Vehicle Durability Simulator (VDS) at the U.S. Army Aberdeen Test Center (ATC) for wheeled vehicles and trailers. The evaluated subsystems for a reliability test on the VDS include structural members, suspension components, armor mounting, and any other chassis mounted subsystems. The VDS does not test reliability of the vehicle powertrain. Testing using the VDS involves mounting the test item on the VDS to excite the system in a controlled manner. Physical responses at various points on the test item are measured with instrumentation such as accelerometers, displacement transducers, inertial measurement units, and wheel force transducers. Actuator drive files for the test item are developed from field data collected with the same, or similar test item. A common set of instrumentation mounted on the vehicle system is used during both field and simulator testing. Test compression techniques are employed to reduce test and simulation time.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 20, 2017
Accession Number
AD1042220

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Sensors

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accelerometers
  • Actuators
  • Computer-Aided Design
  • Control Systems
  • Coordinate Systems
  • Data Acquisition
  • Data Analysis
  • Failure Mode And Effect Analysis
  • Inertial Measurement Units
  • Instrumentation
  • Measurement
  • Reliability
  • Simulations
  • Simulators
  • Strain Gages
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Transducers

Fields of Study

  • Engineering

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