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News Release from: Kistler Instruments | Subject: SmartCrash
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 04 July 2005
Vehicle crash testing improved
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 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 analog signal output, is compatible with existing data acquisition systems and permits simple cost-effective exchanges with force elements from earlier generations
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 31 Mar 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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PSA Peugeot-Citroen is up-grading its French crash test centre with the installation of the Kistler "SmartCrash" system.
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.
The versatile, modular architecture of Kistler's 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, the only supplier of crash barriers using piezo technology, has more than twenty years' experience in the field of crash measurement technology.
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