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Bike Frame Fatigue Testing

A customer wants to test the strength and durability of their bike frames by having it undergo a series of fatigue cycle tests.


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Summary

  • Customer Need / Challenge

    A bike manufacturing company wants to perform a fatigue test on their bike frames. They want to analyze the strength of their bike frames in order to ensure durability and high quality standards.

  • Interface Solution

    Interface suggests installing Model 1000 Fatigue-Rated LowProfile™ Load Cell to the customer’s bike frame fatigue tester. This load cell will provide the customer highly accurate results through the fatigue cycling. Results are collected using the INF-USB3 Universal Serial Bus Single Channel PC Interface Module, and displayed on the customer’s PC or Laptop with Interface’s provided software.

  • Results

    The bike manufacturing company successfully had their bikes undergo fatigue frame testing, receiving highly accurate results with Interface’s load cell and instrumentation.

Materials


  • 1000 Fatigue-Rated LowProfile™ Load Cell
  • INF-USB3 Universal Serial Bus Single Channel PC Interface Module with supplied 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

1000 Fatigue-Rated LowProfile® Load Cell

1000 Fatigue-Rated Universal LowProfile® Load Cell

INF-USB3 Universal Serial Bus Single Channel PC Interface Module