Reducing NVH through refined powertrain measurement

The C1000 vastly simplifies measuring the mass matrix of heavy, odd shaped engines and powertrains.

Accurate measurements of vehicle centers-of-gravity and inertia are vital for helping NVH engineers further improve their dynamic vehicle models-and thus improve performance and safety. Specialized vehicle test machines are used for NHTSA's New Car Assessment Program (NCAP) and new variations are entering service for the subsystem level. One of them is the C1000, developed by S-E-A Vehicle Dynamics headquartered in Columbus, Ohio.

As the smallest of S-E-A's Vehicle Inertia Measurement Facility (VIMF) product line, the C1000 was developed to finally simplify the decades-old issue of measuring the mass matrix of heavy, odd shaped engines and powertrains. The resulting data is crucial to NVH engineers and is now much easier to obtain.