Crash and impact testing allows the automotive industry to visualise the pressure distribution of whiplash, airbags, seatbelts, head restraints and other impacts on the human body or any other test subject. Informed testing enables safer vehicle designs. Designers and engineers can now measure and minimise the elevated body surface pressures created between occupant and seat backs, head restraints, seat belts and airbags during rear or frontal impacts.
Until recently, this impact pressure data has been difficult to obtain. The XSensor was developed to bridge this gap. The XSensor is a high-speed pressure mapping system that collects data at speeds of between 2,000 and 5,000 frames per second, giving designers and engineers the ability to gather critical impact pressure information in a range of different impact scenarios. Whiplash impacts, seat belt and airbag pressure, can all be monitored with the XSensor. Sensor mats are designed to perform, multiple times in the high speed, high impact evronment of crash sledge testing.
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Crash and Impact Testing
High-speed pressure mapping for safer, more informed vehicle impact design
High-Speed Mapping
At a Glance
- Thousands of sensor points for high spatial resolution.
- Data recording at up to 5,000 frames per second.
- Hi-speed pressure imaging of airbag, seat belts, rear impacts etc.
- Flexible, conformable sensors that are less than 1mm thick.
- Sensors are available in a choice of sizes, pressure ranges and spatial resolution.
Package
- One or more sensors of your choice
- Pro V9 HSI software
- High-speed data logger, up to 5,000FPS
- Data logger mount for sledge test rigs
- One or more high-speed sensor packs (SPKs) as required
- PSU and cables.
How It Works
XSensor’s HS Impact pressure mapping system enables engineers and designers carrying out crash and impact testing to visualise the pressure distribution of whiplash, airbag, seat-belt, head restraints and other impacts on the human body or any other test subject.
Data can be recorded at up to 5,000 frames, then downloaded and played back in slow motion and/or exported for analysis.