Predicting the service life of a bicycle frame

DURATION

Start: 01-10-2017
End: 30-09-2019

PARTNERS & FUNDING

This project is funded by and executed in collaboration with Gazelle.

STAFF

Emilio Cervantes Pacheco, Dario di Maio, Tiedo Tinga

DESCRIPTION

The goal of the project is to upgrade the current accelerated life-time tests used in the bike industry for frames and forks by making them more representative of the real-life conditions to which bikes are submitted by their daily users. Loads and parameters applied in bikes while in real-life conditions can later on be integrated into the design and simulation phases in order to have a shorter turnaround time for the products and a more accurate life-time prediction.