Accelerate durability test scenarios

Extensive field tests to validate the durability performance of mechanical designs are a very expensive and time-consuming process. To cut costs, more and more manufacturers are replacing actual vehicle tests by equivalent accelerated laboratory tests or virtual simulations.

LMS TecWare supports this critical shift by efficiently defining sets of compressed load time histories that preserve the same damage potential as originally present ñ making it possible to generate new test schedules and optimize existing ones. Engineers can test more variants in the same amount of time and speed up testing cycles significantly.

LMS TecWare offers tools that, for example, simplify a test that reproduces actual load data signals to a constant amplitude test with equal damage potential. LMS TecWare also removes non-damaging events from long duration measurements in order to shorten the durability tests and therefore accelerate the testing cycle significantly.

• Reduce testing time without losing fatigue content
• Gain a higher return from existing testing facilities
• Improve durability performance by designing customer-correlated test schedules

Covering a range of industries, LMS application cases let you discover how LMS solutions help our customers solve their real-life engineering challenges. 

ASCO and VUB Engineer Slat Tracks for Optimal Safety

Advanced research, conducted by ASCO, LMS and the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), is directed at how to re-design safety-critical components of airplanes. The team is applying life-prediction methods on virtual prototypes, using optimized test scenarios on the physical prototype and applying on-line damage-detection techniques during the physical test.



Luxury carmaker Bentley accelerates into the fast lane with LMS TecWare

Maintaining renowned Bentley brand characteristics such as unquestionable quality and the distinctively unique Bentley driving experience are important factors when expanding the vehicle model range. This is why Bentley Motors Ltd. uses LMS load data processing technology to double testing speeds for their impeccably tuned suspensions.


DAF Performs Durability Engineering at a Million Miles a Week

Having many variants causes a challenge for the design department: each vehicle must be tuned to minimize weight in order to compete with other manufacturers on payload and consequently transport efficiency – yet the vehicle must meet design life targets of over 1.2 million kilometers. Since 20% of the design effort is spent on durability engineering, being able to get the process faster and more reliable was one reason why DAF joined the international research project, FATYNAMICS.


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