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Last week, around 20 members of the Coatings Motor Club from Münster visited the crash test facility in MS-Wolbeck. As part of the company visit, the participants were able to follow a lecture presented by Dipl.-Ing. Peter Schimmelpfennig on current test areas of CTS. The evening was rounded off with a high-speed crash test. The vehicles of the participants remained, of course, undamaged. 

Where normally vehicles are crashed or traffic restraint systems are being tested, last Monday evening, the dog handler team of the Münster police trained. They used the complete crash test facility for a guard dog exercise. Dogs and dog handlers had the possibility to recreate various scenarios under real conditions and to train undisturbed. For the duration of the exercise, the crash test facility was completely closed off, so that the police dogs search exercise could be run as realistic as possible.

After the last summer celebration of the CTS workforce with their families and friends took place almost two years ago, this time was celebrated all the more. More than 150 people were offered an exciting afternoon. Bouncy castle, wheel of fortune, cherry picker rides and entertaining lectures were the focus of the afternoon. Of course, this year too, following a good CTS tradition, there was a high-speed crash test. Another highlight was provided by the fire brigade, which was specifically designed to simulate a vehicle occupancy rescue with the help of the vehicles that had just been crashed. Additionally, under the supervision of test manager Ralf Bührmann, another crash test vehicle was made available, which could be used for own experimentation and be demolished at heart’s desire. We are already looking forward to the next time! 

These individually custom-made Biofidelic-crash test dummies are intended, in this particular case, for the use in explosive tests. Our new colleagues are though very flexible in terms of their application. For both accident reconstruction and industrial tests, a wide selection of Biofidelic-crash test dummies is always available ready on the starting blocks. If you too would like to buy or rent a Biofidelic-crash test dummy, please do not hesitate to contact us for details!

Under the direction of Dr. Möhler, around 20 students from TU Aachen visited the crash test facility this week. Within the scope of the company visit, the students were able to follow a presentation by Dipl. Ing Peter Schimmelpfennig on current test areas of CTS. Dr. rer. nat. Ingo Holtkötter also gave a talk on the possibilities of electronic manipulation of vehicles and electric data evaluation. The afternoon was rounded off with a high speed crash test, which the students were able to watch live from the secure spectators stand.

Currently in the CTS-crash test database are almost 40 new crash tests from AXA Switzerland. AXA has reconstructed a wide variety of different impulse and collision situations, e.g. pedestrian collisions, cross-road collisions, rear-end collisions and many more. These crash tests are available for download.

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In times of modern accident reconstruction, dummies are frequently used in crash tests.In the case of a precise reconstruction of motion sequences, damages or injuries, the Biofidelic Dummy should be used in the future. These Biofidelic Dummies are constantly developed in cooperation with TU Berlin and are produced according to the latest state of the art technology in a specially designed dummy laboratory at CTS.

For the first time, CTS was represented at one of the largest and most important trade exhibitions for road safety in Shanghai. The focus of the first talks were, in particular, on road traffic restraint systems such as safety barriers and road blockers.