Overview
The ASE-TB project designed, manufactured and tuned an innovative and smart Test Bench for linear actuators that was capable of conducting synchronized tests on two linear actuators of the same type while applying different loads on them. The test bench also included a thermal chamber for conducting tests at regulated temperatures with one of the actuators.
This actuator test bench was based on a modular, eco-efficient and adaptive concept by integrating easily exchangeable hydraulic and mechanical components with sensors and control strategies that allow automatic and autonomous safety controls as well as energy saving approaches that assured optimised lifecycle costs and environmental impacts during endurance tests.
This innovative concept of actuator test bench meant thus a positive impact on the safety and working conditions of the end users of the Test Bench as well as a reduction in the time and costs associated to testing linear actuators together with an increase in the quality and reliability of said tests.
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Executive summary:
The ASE-TB project has designed, manufactured and tuned an innovative test bench for linear actuators that will be capable of conducting synchronised tests on two linear actuators of the same type while applying different loads on them. This test bench has been based on a modular and adaptive concept by integrating easily exchangeable hydraulic and mechanical components with sensors and control strategies that will allow automatic and autonomous safety controls during endurance tests.
This innovative concept of actuator test bench has been based on a multi-disciplinary approach that has considered modularity, assembly easiness and process safety in an integral way.
With the aim of designing, manufacturing, tuning and delivering the innovative ASE-TB test bench for linear actuators, Tecnalia has tackled multidisciplinary research activities that have been grouped into seven Work package (WP)s: WP1-4 as Research and technological development (RTD) activities, WP5 as demonstration activity, WP6 as the activities and WP7 as management.