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Bike Fork Bending

A bike manufacturing company wants to test their bike forks for any structural imperfections.


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Summary

  • Customer Need / Challenge

    A bike manufacturing company wants to test their bike forks for any structural imperfections.

  • Interface Solution

    Interface’s SSMF Fatigue Rated S-Type Load Cell can be attached to the bike fork as it undergoes a bending fatigue test. The customer is able to view, log, and graph the results using Interface’s INF-USB3 Universal Serial Bus Single Channel PC Interface Module on their PC or laptop computer.

  • Results

    Interface’s SSMF Fatigue Rated S-Type Load Cell successfully measured the forces under the bike fork’s fatigue test, testing it’s overall structural quality.

Materials


  • SSMF Fatigue Rated S-Type Load Cell
  • INF-USB3 Universal Serial Bus Single Channel PC Interface Module with supplied graphing software
  • Customer PC or Laptop

How it Works


  1. The 1000 Fatigue-Rated LowProfile™ Load Cell is attached to the actuator of the fatigue testing machine.
  2. The load cell undergoes a number of fatigue cycles on the bike frame, and records highly accurate results.
  3. The data results are collected using the INF-USB3 Universal Serial Bus Single Channel PC Interface Module. These results can be displayed when connected to the customer’s PC or laptop using the supplied software with the INF-USB3 Universal Serial Bus Single Channel PC Interface Module.

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Products Used in this App Note

SSMF Fatigue Rated S-Type Load Cell

INF-USB3 Universal Serial Bus Single Channel PC Interface Module