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Vehicle Testing & Evaluation

Verify vehicle system specifications and demonstrate safe operations with ENSCO’s vehicle testing and evaluation processes, including identification of hazardous motions and conditions, measurement of dynamic forces, assessment of wheel/rail interface, measurement of noise levels, and ride quality.

ENSCO provides a full range of vehicle testing and troubleshooting services, including vehicle performance/acceptance testing, vehicle dynamics analysis, cab signaling system evaluations, wheel unloading tests, and derailment investigations.
 

Vehicle Acceptance Testing

ENSCO's experienced rail team and advanced test equipment provide data collection and analysis services to verify system specifications and demonstrate safe operations for the purposes of waiver and/or qualification approval. ENSCO’s capabilities for testing and analysis include vibration and ride quality testing, wayside and onboard noise monitoring, wheel/rail force measuring, wheel unloading and load equalization measurement, brake performance testing, and wheel temperature testing.
 

Troubleshooting

ENSCO's team routinely assesses car body/truck accelerations, vehicle component displacements, resultant stresses and strains, as well as cab signal systems to identify potentially hazardous motions and conditions.
 

Wheel/Rail Contact Force Measurement

ENSCO’s Wheel/Rail Contact Force Measurement System measures the dynamic lateral, vertical and longitudinal forces, as well as the location of the wheel/rail interface to facilitate acceptance tests of high-speed vehicles and safety-related investigations.
 

Wayside Vehicle Inspection

ENSCO combines its many years of experience in systems development/engineering/integration with its expertise in vehicle and track interaction studies, and vehicle maintenance to provide a full range of wayside inspection systems and services. Our reputation as a knowledgeable systems integrator combined with our knowledge of vehicle-track interaction and our outstanding relationship with vendors qualifies us as an ideal choice for meeting customers' wayside inspection needs with regard to needs assessment, specification development, and equipment integration and installation, as well as results interpretation.

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