Impact attenuators tested!
January 25th, 2010
This month we already produced three impact attenuators, also called crash noses. Thursday the 21st of January we tested them at Corus. The crash noses need to absorb the energy of a car that weighs 300 kg and hits a wall with 25 km/h, quite an impact! Our crash noses are made of composite materials which makes them very light, about 800 grams for a nose. The tests went well, we now have a lot of valuable data to make our final nose, which we also have to test. This is to proof that that nose is safe enough to use at the competition.