Navistar Proving Grounds has structural durability testing experience with the following vehicle types:
- Passenger cars and light trucks
- Heavy trucks (straight trucks and tractors)
- Buses and motor coaches
- Recreational vehicles (motor homes [class A], van chassis based [class C], travel trailers)
- Commercial trailers (e.g., van, flatbed, tank and container chassis)
- Military vehicles
- School buses
- Medium-duty commercial trucks (e.g., delivery trucks and ambulances)
Navistar Proving Grounds provides a complete vehicle structural durability testing facility and support services, including design engineering and FEA:
- Road profile capability (real-world correlation to the durability course using accelerometer and strain gage data)
- Multiple road surfaces (chatter, impact, cobblestone, undulating, resonance road surfaces, high speed oval, gravel, body/chassis twist event and off-road surfaces)
- Durability route and mileage amounts tailored to specific customer needs
- 24-hour-per-day mileage accumulation provided
- Seven-day-per-week mileage accumulation available
- Data acquisition systems and instrumentation available
- Ballast (load simulation) provided as required
- Road or public roadway mileage accumulation available
- Cold weather mileage accumulation available (November through March)
Navistar Proving Grounds has trained personnel skilled in supporting vehicle structural durability testing:
- Technicians experienced in vehicle preparation, including initial inspections, vehicle buildup, ballast installation, in-test inspections and vehicle repairs, among others
- Mileage accumulation drivers
- Engineers experienced in coordinating durability mileage accumulation programs, route selection and road profile determination, data analysis and test report preparation