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April 18, 2007

Rolling Road Wind Tunnel

at 5:43 am. Filed under Insane Equipment

At first glance I thought this rolling road made by Haas Automation and Jacobs Engineering was a picture of a toy car on an inverted belt sander.

“The one-millimeter thick continuous steel belt will roll at over 180mph, and features sensors under the bed that can take readings at each wheel. At top speed the wind tunnel fan will circulate 2.85 million cubic feet of air per minute! The facility will be available for rental to motorsports teams and manufacturers when it opens later this year. And yes, that’s a genuine actual-size race car up on the rollers.”

Via: OhGizmo and Jalopnik


 

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14 Responses to “Rolling Road Wind Tunnel”

  1. RSMilward Says:

    This is very reminiscent of the systems described in “The Roads Must Roll!” (1940) by Robert Heinlein.

  2. liesofxiii Says:

    Thats insanely awesome, looks like they fixed the little problem of cars in wind tunnels

  3. Alan Parekh Says:

    Hey RSMilward,

    I had never heard of that book before, sometimes it just takes some time for the technology to catch up to crazy ideas.

    Just imagine if that steel belt ever broke. That guy would be sliced in half.

  4. Clark Hummell Says:

    Why?

  5. Paul Says:

    Haha this is massive, i also thought it was a toy car at first

  6. Mr. Maigo Says:

    All I can say is about damn time… Oh and I bet NASCAR is going ape s*** over it. Soon they’ll by Budweiser, Florida and Sony. It’ll be the first economy based on ovals.

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  8. Hexypoo Says:

    I’m with mr mario, I thought it was a model or something at first.

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  10. skazz Says:

    I always thought engineers were cocky. As if they couldn’t move the desk just a little farther from the death machine.

  11. Mike Williamson Says:

    Clark: because it’s a steel belt 1mm thick, which is effectively a blade at high speed. And steel does eventually fail from stress when repeatedly flexed.

    No one should ever stand in front of this thing.

    Notice no one is in the vehicle and it’s strapped down.

  12. Lord Inquisitor Says:

    Metal fatrigue

  13. iman Says:

    i want member this sit

  14. Carl Says:

    This is not a system designed by Haas, it is made by MTS Systems in Minnesota. And it is not run like it is shown in the picture. This is a picture of the product in the assembly bay. It would be pretty pointless to run the road in an open room. It is meant for wind tunnel testing to reproduce the effect of the road moving as well as the air. Yes belts do fail but it is pretty easy to catch the problem before catastrophic failure.

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