Test equipment for bridge bearing components
The MPA Stuttgart (Materials Testing Institute) uses special test equipment for bridge bearing components to increase safety in construction.
The MPA Stuttgart (Materials Testing Institute) uses special test equipment for bridge bearing components to increase safety in construction.
The test equipment also includes a complete measurement system from HBM comprising displacement, pressure, and force transducers as well as the MGCplus amplifier system.
Test equipment tasks include, for example:
- Basic and approval testing to provide evidence that materials and lubricants are suitable for use in bridge bearings and structural engineering. For this purpose, short and long-term tests are conducted, depending on stress parameters such as pressure, temperature, and speed as well as for measuring friction, wear, and settling behavior (creep).
- Acceptance testing of bearing components
- Certification of components
- Analysis of cases of damage.
HBM provides all the transducers suited to the wide range of tasks
covered by the test equipment:
- WA displacement transducers for distance monitoring and settling behavior P3MB pressure transducers for system pressure monitoring U2A force transducers for measuring friction force (in friction tests).
- The MGCplus amplifier system which is used in addition acquires data from HBM transducers as well as other quantities, for example, temperature.
