Illustrated Application Note
Bike Frame Fatigue Testing
A customer wants to test the strength and durability of their bike frames by having it undergo a series of fatigue cycle tests.
A bike manufacturing company wants to perform a fatigue test on their bike frames. They want to analyze the strength of their bike frames in order to ensure durability and high quality standards.
Interface suggests installing Model 1000 Fatigue-Rated LowProfile™ Load Cell to the customer’s bike frame fatigue tester. This load cell will provide the customer highly accurate results through the fatigue cycling. Results are collected using the INF-USB3 Universal Serial Bus Single Channel PC Interface Module, and displayed on the customer’s PC or Laptop with Interface’s provided software.
The bike manufacturing company successfully had their bikes undergo fatigue frame testing, receiving highly accurate results with Interface’s load cell and instrumentation.