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  Summary of UTAC services and facilities

 

Over the last few years, UTAC has fine-tuned its organization and developed synergetic working practice across its skills base in order to match its services as closely as possible to the varied needs of its customers, providing effective support for technical programmes and international development. UTAC personnel is highly attentive to the constraints facing its customers, and offers prompt, flexible response to their needs.

UTAC services :
> Emission & Energy Laboratory
> Physics & Chemistry Laboratory
> Vibration-Acoustics Laboratory
> Electronics and Electromagnetic Compatibility
> Passive safety
> Vehicle dynamics
> Lighting and signalling
> Information systems


UTAC facilities by activity area :

Emission & Energy Laboratory Passive safety
Physics & Chemistry Laboratory Vehicle dynamics
Vibration-Acoustics Laboratory Lighting and signalling
Electronics and Electromagnetic Compatibility


Emission & Energy Laboratory
>   Design and development test cell for light-vehicle emissions
> Approval test cell for light-vehicle emissions
> Heavy vehicle test cell (industrial and public-transport vehicles)
> Bike test cell
> Dynamic shed (Chamber for measuring hydrocarbons by evaporation)
> Climatic chamber from -20° C to +40° C with hygrometry regulation and roller bed.
> Engine test cell performance and endurance trial (under upgrading).

Physics & Chemistry Laboratory
> Ozone precursor analyzer (Perkin-Elmer)
> Liquid chromatograph (Agilent 1100 series)
> Ion chromatograph (Dionex DX-600 IC System)
> Gas chromatograph / Mass spectrometer coupling (Perkin-Elmer)
> Atomic absorption spectrophotometer with a graphite furnace
> Weighing room with controlled temperature and hygrometry

Vibration-Acoustics Laboratory
> Semi-anechoic chamber with useful volume of 2000 cubic meters (20 m ´ 10 m ´ 6 m), equipped with chassis dynamometer.
> Anechoic chamber (60 cubic meters) connected to reverberation chamber.
> Electrodynamics shakers for equipment vibratory qualification tests
> Test track complex
Outdoor noise measuring facilities including approval tracks (ISO 10844) and special tracks for evaluating acoustic and vibration comfort.
> LMS digital acquisition and processing systems for vibro-acoustic signals (24 channels)
> Muller BBM portable digital acquisition and processing systems for vibro-acoustic signals (16 channels)
> Others systems

Electronics and Electromagnetic Compatibility
> A semi-anechoic chamber 19m long by 10 m x 7 m to perform EMC tests for a large range of vehicles : passenger cars to buses at 200 V/m field strengh level from 10kHz to 2 GHz
> Immunity an emission test chamber for electronic sub-assemblies from 10kHz to 8 GHz
> An emission test chamber for radiocommunication measurements (7m x 4.75 m x 4.8m)
> A stirred mode chamber to test electronic sub-assemblies (emission and immunity) from 300 MHz to 18 GHz
> Electrical test laboratory
> Anti-theft system test laboratory for light vehicles
> Immobilizers and alarms devices testing
> Motorcycles anti-theft devices : two or three wheels with handlebar

Passive safety
> Crash test facility : for testing head-on collision against fixed or moving obstacles
> Hyge sled for impact simulation (up to 1.5 tons at 70 g).
> Subsystems catapult
> Nine-cylinder traction testbench (125 mm by 125 mm)
> Eight-wire pendulums
> Drop tests
> Energy dissipation pendulum
> Stiffness test bench
> Seat bench
> Headform drop (free motion headform test)
> Fixed headform test
> Static turn over
> Tension and compression
> Rear-view mirror break-out bench
> Pedestrian impact testbench
> Data acquisition systems
> Dummies (adults, children, front impact, side impact) with full instrumentation.
> Load cell wall
> Video measurement
> Numerical simulation for fast-dynamic phenomena.

Vehicle dynamics
> Load/speed test stand for light or heavy commercial vehicle tyres
> Load//speed test stand for passenger car or light commercial vehicle tyres
> Dynamometric braking test bench for brake linings of passenger cars or light commercial vehicles
> Low grip track
> Control test bench of bicycle conformity
> Test tracks
> Scales for weighing and centre of gravity measurement
> Endurance bench (special "windshield wiper blades")
> Aquaplaning area
> Gyroscopic platforms
> Wheel torquemeter
> Other equipments
> Tilt plateform

Lighting and signalling
> Photometry testbenches
> Retroreflection benches
> Colorimetry and spectral analysis apparatus (spectrophotometer & spectroradiometer)
> One-metre integrating sphere
> Mechanical strength test apparatus


 
 
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