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Tesseract: a seismic testing platform delivering services to many sectors.
The “Tesseract” platform, which results from a joint venture between Cetim and the FCBA (Forêt Cellulose, Bois-construction Ameublement), is designed to test all kinds of equipment prone to the effects of earthquakes! The platform was created in order to meet increased qualification requirements to ensure the safety of nuclear plant equipment in seismic conditions (such as during the Fukushima disaster). It is suited to all types of metallic structures and equipment used inter aliain the railway, construction machinery, oil & gas and aerospace sectors. The major advantage of “Tesseract” is that it allows industrial manufacturers to perform tests using numerical simulation and to confirm them or improve their reliability through experiments.
The platform is located at FCBA in Bordeaux, France, and is based on a bi-axial shake table designed to perform stress accelerations up to 50 m/s 2. This table is associated with a multi-channel and multi-physical acquisition system and can withstand assemblies weighing several tons. The two technical centres thereby provide industrial manufacturers with a set of resources to characterise, qualify or improve the reliability of structures and equipment earthquake behaviour and validate their calculation memos and their studies.
Find more information, such as a detailed technical sheet and a video of the platform, in our offer “Qualify the seismic behaviour of equipment”, in the “Services” section of our website,.
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