To plan a test is a science itself. And actually, the plan is much more important than the breaking of the concrete or the steel itself. The test has to really demonstrate a real-life situation of a column, floor, balcony or other object in the building. Tests e.g. related to some new, coming product versions we did last year at the University of Greenwich, United Kingdom.
The reasons
for testing are not just when we create new products. In 2012 we proved new calculations referring to EN –standards with regards to our punching shear
to work in real life situation at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL),
Switzerland. See below some pictures of the test set-up.
Sometimes
we also want to make sure that products we have been selling a longer time
really work and the conventional wisdom is really correct. For this reason we
have e.g. done extensive testing of lifting anchor products range with
interesting results at the Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany.
To enlarge
usage of products to extreme cases we also do further analyses like three-dimensional
FEM thermal analysis for PCs corbel in Centre Technique et Industriel de la Construction
Metallique (CTICM), France.
For the
sake of proving that there are weaknesses in EN-standards and need to be
changed in certain sections, we have done tests at the Technical University of
Zilina, Slovakia. Sometimes it is
better to prove that we are right not with calculations, because physical parts
can lead to faster conclusions by the authorities.
During the
last year there was also one very absurd case with one of our competitor. The competitor claimed one of our connection products
to be unsafe to both customers and to an approval body in one given country.
This was the first ever claim in our 48-year history where Peikko were blamed
to sell unsafe products.Again, the
successful tests on our product at the Technical Research Centre of Finland,
VTT, Finland proved the claims of
the competitor not only technically baseless, but at the same time convinced
the authorities and boosted the trust on Peikko as a reliable partner. >
All in all,
these were the tests done during 2012. In year 2013 we will have further
development programs, such as Deltabeam tests to be done in North America. We
remain committed to make our industry more safe and reliable, now and in the
years to come.
Wo kann man das Programm PEIKDUR von S.7 des PSB0911 finden?
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