Infrastructure Facilities

A) National Centre for Automotive Testing (NCAT) Facilities

The National Centre for Automotive testing (NCAT) of VRDE is an approved test agency for testing and evaluation of automotive vehicles and their systems & components for `Certification for Compliance’ to various National / International Standards / Regulations.

The test facilities at NCAT consists of Test tracks and Emission, Photometry, EMI / EMC laboratories & Safety labs, with necessary supporting infrastructure, to provide a one stop solution to the testing requirements of Indian Automotive Industry and Defence Forces. NCAT facilities are accredited by NABL as per ISO 17025.

Test facilities are available for –

Automotive performance evaluation
Accelerated Endurance Testing
Vibration and Strain Measurement
Emission, Engine power & SFC testing
EMI / EMC Testing
Photometry Testing
Environmental testing

Test Tracks – Various types of Test Tracks and facilities are available at NCAT for exhaustive Automotive Testing. These are spread on area of 450 acres. The test tracks simulate a variety of ground / road surface conditions which a vehicle normally encounters during its life time.

Automotive Performance Evaluation
High Speed Track – 4.2 km	Straight track – 2 km
Noise Track conforming to IS 3028	ABS Track conforming to IS 11852
Accelerated Endurance Testing
Belgian Pave Track	Corrugated Track – 100 mm
Pot Hole Track	Chassis Twister Track
Corrugated Track – 50 mm
Riding and Handling Evaluation
Long Wave Pitching Track	Side Slope Track
Steering Pad	Serpentine Track (4 Wheeler)
Mobility Evaluation
Vehicle Dynamic track	Gradients (70,10.20,150, 250,300)
Mud Track	Cross Country Track
Wading	Ditch Crossing facility
Troughs	Step Climbing Facility
Stand track
Other Facilities
Shower	Dust tunnel
Tilting platform	Draw Bar or Winch Pull Test Rig
Tracks for `A’ vehicles	Anchor Block for Draw Bar Pull
Indoor Test Laboratories
EMI / EMC Tech Centre	Environmental Test Lab
Emission Lab	Photometry
Structural Dynamic Lab

TRACKS FOR AUTOMOTIVE PERFORMANCE EVALUATION

1. High Speed Track : 4.2 km

2. Straight Track: 2 km

3. Noise Track Conforming to IS 3028

4. ABS Track confirming to IS 11852

TRACKS FOR ACCELERATED ENDURANCE

1. Belgian Pave Track

2. Pot Hole Track

3. Corrugated Track : 100 mm & 50 mm

4. Chassis Twister Track

TRACKS FOR RIDE AND HANDLING EVALUATION

1. Steering Pad : 100 m diameter

2. Serpentine Track

3. Side Slope Track

TRACKS FOR MOBILITY EVALUATION

1. Vehicle Dynamics Test track

2. Mud Track

3. Wading Trough

4. Gradient Track : (70, 10.20, 150, 250 & 300)

5. Cross Country Track

TEST LABORATORIES

1. EMC TECH CENTRE

A state of the art and one of the biggest in the world, Electro Magnetic Compatibility (EMC) Test facility to cater the need of Defence & Automotive industry as per applicable National & International EMC Norms. The EMC Lab is NABL accredited.

Salient Features

Semi Anechoic Chamber : : 32.8 x 20.5 x 9.3 m (LxWxH)
Chassis dynamometer on turn table : : 10 T, 9 m diameter
Turn table for EUT : : 2 m
Frequency range : : 9 kHz to 40 GHz
Field levels : : 200 V/m continuous
Max EUT size : 16 x 4 x 5 m (LxWxH)
NEMP EUT size : 5 x 3.5 x 2.5 m ( LxWxH)
Instrumentation : : Immunity 100 kHz to 40 GHz 200 V/m Emission – 9 kHz to 40 GHz

2.Emission Laboratory - The emission Lab at NCAT is equipped with state-of-the-art facilities for undertaking the following tests as per National / International standards.

Salient Features:

Measurement of mass emission (HC, CO, NOx and PM) of SI and CI vehicles and heavy duty CI engines.
Measurement of particulates from diesel engines
Smoke level measurement of diesel engines
Power & SFC measurements
Idling emission measurements
Evaporative emission determination from gasoline vehicles

Test equipment available

4 wheeler chassis dynamometer
Dilute gasoline exhaust analyzer for 4 wheler
Raw Exhaust gas analyzer
CVS system and dilution tunnel
Particulate measurement system (PMS)
Portable gas analyzer
Sealed housing evaporative determination (SHED) chamber for deteramination of evaporative emission from gasoline vehicles

3. Environment Test Laboratory (ETL) - The environmental test lab is equipped with various sophisticated world class test facilities for simulating environmental conditions like Drive in Test Chamber, Climatic Chamber, Thermal Shock Chamber, Dry Cold Chamber, Dry Heat Chamber, Weather-O-Meter, Ozone Chamber, Dust Test Chamber and Rain Chamber. The ETL is equipped with various sophisticated world class testing facilities for:

Environmental Conditioning