Railway

Test rigs for center buffer couplings

01Customized variable coupling conditions
02Customized variable automatic test runs
03Prepared for testing the DAC

Our technologies for your demands

With this test stand, a wide variety of rail couplings can be tested in manual or automatic test runs:

Coupling and uncoupling procedures
Dynamic push and pull studies
Mountain crossings and cornerings
Leak tests

Equipped with the real-time automation system for test benches RENK I RDDS, this test bench is ideally suited to support the development of analog and digital central buffer couplings with realistic mechanical and electrical tests.

01 Customized variable coupling conditions

Offset, tilt, dynamics

When automatically coupling two carriages, the following operating conditions are relevant, which can be simulated with the RENK test rig:

Dynamic of a coupling half and transmitting high impact forces
Offset of the vehicles and automatic centering of the coupling halves
Tilted position of the vehicles and automatic alignment of the coupling half

02 Customized variable automatic test runs

Easy preparation of all necessary test procedures

Coupling and uncoupling procedures
Dynamic pull and push studies
Mountain crossings and cornerings
Leak tests
And much more!

03 prepared for testing the DAC

Interfaces for compressed air, electrical power and signal transmission

RENK test rigs not only enable mechanical coupling and uncoupling tests of conventional couplings. An essential component of the future European Digital Automatic Coupling (DAC) is the transmission of compressed air as well as electrical energy and digital data. Our test benches also offer the appropriate supply, interfaces and measuring data acquisition for this.