Test Rig Development
Design Unit has designed and built many types of test rig for:
- Research into gear surface fatigue – back-to-back rigs and disc rigs.
- Life testing (including fatigue testing of belt and chain drives).
- Efficiency measurements (including power losses in high speed gearing and chain drives).
- Wear testing (including low speed, high temperature gear testing).
- Noise and vibration measurements (including an 8MW back to back rig for investigating tooth contact excitation in marine size gears).
- Lube oil studies (including efficiency comparisons and investigating the effects of additives).
- Coupling performance.