A global leader in the materials testing industry, Instron manufactures a wide range of testing systems to evaluate materials and structures within the automotive industry, including electric vehicle batteries. Instron offers testing systems for tensile, compression, flexural, fatigue, impact, dynamic, torsional, melt flow, HDT, and Vicat testing in addition to structural durability and crash simulation testing. The extensive Instron product line is backed by a global infrastructure offering a broad range of local service capabilities including installation, calibration, training, onsite machine upgrades, and any service needs along the way to minimize downtime.
As the automotive industry trends towards electrification, Instron is working closely with industry leaders to meet the growing and evolving demands of battery manufacturing. New battery types and designs require adaptability and Instron is dedicated to helping manufacturers meet the challenge by developing new test methods, custom fixturing, and optimized test setups to increase throughput and efficiency.
Instron’s facility in Darmstadt, Germany is known for its exceptional expertise in servo-hydraulic operational load simulation for both vehicle durability and crash simulation. With over 30 years of experience in the field of passive safety, Instron is the market leader with more than 100 crash simulation systems installed, local factory-trained service, and proven long-term investment protection. Instron offers some of the highest-quality and most accurate testing equipment on the market. In addition to the common applications such as frontal, offset, and rear impact, the active pitching simulation for frontal tests has proven to be the outstanding cutting-edge technology in the field, and Instron continues to develop best-in-class solutions for crash simulation. Instron also offers solutions ranging from simple, single-channel component test rigs to complex systems enabling the simulation of synthetic or road loads acting on a vehicle or structure.
