HBM helps keep Bloodhound on track!
13/01/2017
HBM, a market leader in the field of test and measurement, has announced its involvement in the Bloodhound Project, the ground-breaking initiative that will see the development of a 1000 mph vehicle designed to break the world land-speed record.The Bloodhound SuperSonic Car is powered by a Eurojet EJ200 engine, a cluster of Nammo hybrid rockets and a Jaguar V8 motor that pumps oxidiser to the rocket. Meanwhile, the body, chassis and control systems of Bloodhound rely on a range of advanced design and manufacturing techniques, which have been provided by The Advanced Structural Testing Centre (ASTC) in Sheffield.
As part of its research towards optimising Bloodhound, the ASTC opted to utilise the MGCplus data acquisition system from HBM for a number of its test and measurement tasks, including load and displacement measurement, whilst testing the rear pull-rod suspension components and front suspension roller bearings.
By strategically placing sensors at different points on the car to measure parameters such as the movement of parts, the temperature and how much the suspension moved as the car was driving – all important factors when a car is travelling at over 1000 mph – signals were compared by the MGCplus data acquisition system, with its stored calibrations, and a value for the properties was calculated and recorded. Following this success, ASTC also deployed the latest Quantum X system from HBM for other smaller, more flexible applications.
HBM data acquisition systems are suitable for a wide range of vehicle testing applications. With more than 100,000 MGCplus channels in different applications worldwide, HBM’s MGCplus system has gained acceptance as a measurement standard that features the wide spectrum of supported transducers and standard PC interfaces that users demand from a leading and integrated measurement device.
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