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The purpose of the system is to measure the braking force available from the DUT (brake caliper assembly) as the servo drive rotates the shaft/rotor disk when it is actuated.
The Motion Test Lab brake test system mechanical structure is built around a vertical servo driven shaft assembly coupled through a torque transducer to the rotor of the brake device under test: an electrically actuated disk brake assembly.
The rotor and caliper assemblies are coupled to the top of the shaft system which protrudes through the floor of a thermal chamber. The caliper assembly is mounted to a fixture plate on the floor of the chamber to simulate actual “on-vehicle” operating conditions.
The LabView software in the test system is set-up as a recipe-based application so that the customer can run different shaft speed/chamber temperature cycles during disk brake performance validation runs across several model lines. DUT performance data is collected and stored locally, then transferred to a corporate SQL database.
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