NTS Detroit - Expert Testing for the Automotive Industry
The technical experts at NTS Detroit are committed to providing you with real time, practical solutions at competitive prices. Our centrally located Detroit Automotive Testing center provides our clients a unique, turnkey approach offering excellent turn around time, superb customer service, technical expertise and extensive resources.
NTS Detroit Dynamometer laboratory offers extensive capabilities, 25 to 600 horsepower, high torque at low rpm and low torque at high rpm, including full automation. Our expertise encompasses practically every aspect of a vehicles drive train: transmissions, transaxles, transfer cases, rear axles, U-joints, half-shafts and complete driveline systems. Innovative onstand conditioning can induce hot, cold and special environments on any rotating component. A unique test exposes propshafts to hot, cold, salt/sand slurry, torque and speed, while monitoring the bearing temperatures with infrared cameras. Accessory drive components can be exposed to high rpms (up to 24,000), salt, hot, cold with simultaneous performance testing.
How can NTS Detroit accelerate your speed to market?
Vibration Testing NTS vibration test systems in thermal chambers can perform random, swept sine, and sine on random vibration as well as half-sine, triangle and trapezoidal shock testing combined with temperature exposure. All of these systems have the capability to reproduce field data. Electrodynamic systems range to 16,000 force pounds, both vertical and horizontal. Servohydraulic systems range to 20,000 force pounds with 10 inch stroke. NTS Detroit has an excellent working knowledge of all automotive vibration requirements.
Climatics With nearly 100 environmental chambers including a dual vehicle drive-in chamber, NTS can provide thermal shock, thermal cycling, humidity, corrosion (salt spray per ASTM B117 and GM9540P), water and dust (Degrees of Protection Provided by Enclosures, IEC 60529), autoclave (humidity with air in excess of 100 degrees C), atmospheric pressure and vacuum simulation.
Mechanical Mechanical testing disciplines include servo-hydraulic, linear/rotary fatigue and ultimate strength tests. Fuel tank testing, slosh tests, impact tests, rollover tests, pressure/vacuum tests and mechanical strength tests. Pressure/temperature/vibration testing on hoses. Burst tests on hoses and tanks. Leak testing, Helium mass spectrometer, pressure decay, leak rate measurement and bubble test. Spin testing of tire/wheel/pressure sensors in support of TREAD act.
NTS Automotive Operations
12601 Southfield Road
Detroit, MI 48223
Telephone: 800.946.2687 or 313.835.0044
Fax: 313.272.1190
