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Another delivery of 6 Primus dummies to one of our customers.  
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INTERTRAFFIC Amsterdam, which takes place every two years, is a leading international event for professionals from the fields of infrastructure, mobility and traffic management.

Crashtest-service.com will also be present this time and can be found on 29.03.2022 - 01.04.2022 in hall 8 at stand no. 08.133.

You are also an exhibitor and want to carry out an impact test according to EN 1317, MASH 2016, ASTM F 2656-20, PAS:68 or IWA 14-1 for approval or certification at short notice before the fair?

Write to us! Of course, we would be pleased to welcome you at our trade fair stand.

Last week, another high-speed crash was conducted at the test facility in Münster. An Alfa Romeo 159 collided partially covered with a barrier. You can now find this and other new crash tests in our webshop.

From now on, the CTS dummy production has a mobile X-ray unit at its disposal. The biofide PRIMUS dummy is the world's first dummy that can be X-rayed - and that is exactly what makes the comparison between real and recreated injuries or damage so special.

Directly after a crash test, damage to bone and tissue parts of the PRIMUS dummy can be made visible by medical X-ray. These direct insights allow conclusions to be drawn about real injuries and also enable classification in the simplified injury scale (Abbreviated Injury Scale (AIS)).

The year is comming to an end. We would like to take this opportunity to thank you for the trust you have placed in us and for the good cooperation. We wish you a Merry Christmas and a healthy and successful New Year.

CTS was already involved in the drafting of DIN SPEC 91414-1 in April. Now the kick-off for Part 2 followed. "Requirements for the planning of access protection for the use of tested vehicle safety barriers" - this is the title of DIN SPEC 91414-2, in the development and elaboration of which the CTS team around Michel Osterkemper will be significantly involved. This project is funded by the Federal Ministry of the Interior, for Construction and Home Affairs (BMI) and is expected to take one year to complete. (symbolic image)

For its latest flagship in the field of special protection vehicles, the Mercedes S 680 GUARD 4MATIC, the Stuttgart-based car manufacturer relied on the PRIMUS dummy produced by CTS for development. The Mercedes is certified according to VPAM BRV guidelines and achieves the highest civilian protection class (VR10) in ballistics. To ensure maximum protection against blast attacks, the biofidel crash test dummy PRIMUS was used for the first time in accordance with VPAM ERV (Explosive Resistant Vehicles) guidelines.

Experts from all over the world were represented online and on site at this year's "Practical Conference on Pedestrian Protection". The crash team from CTS was also present. Right on the first day of the event, a collision between a passenger car and a PRIMUS dummy on an e-scooter was simulated. The consequences of the accident for the PRIMUS dummy were then examined by Prof. Lars Hannawald during a live autopsy. In this way, the damage to the dummy could be visualised immediately for the audience. Dipl.-Ing. Benjamin Härtel also gave a presentation on the validation process of the PRIMUS dummy. 

The CTS Vehicle Security Barrier List (VSB List) is now available for download. The VSB List provides information on vehicle security barriers that have been successfully tested by us and serves as a basis for your decision to find the right product for your needs and areas of application. The VSB list is updated continuously and can be downloaded here.

CTS has actively participated in the development of the DIN SPEC 91414-1 standard for mobile vehicle barriers. Part 1 of the new standard deals with the requirements, test methods and performance criteria of mobile safety barriers. 

DIN SPEC 91414-1 is available for free download from Beuth Verlag at www.beuth.de.

We are looking forward to testing your innovative drive-through barriers soon.  

The DUMMY CRASHTEST CONFERENCE is a new series of events in the CTS event area and is aimed specifically at all those who deal professionally with crash tests, dummies and measurement technology.

Especially for the automotive and supplier industry, aircraft industry, research institutes, safety equipment manufacturers, accident researchers and engineers this workshop represents a special added value.

The workshop offers interesting presentations from the fields of dummy development and production, crash measurement technology, barrier solutions, to software for data acquisition and evaluation. The program is rounded off with various real-life tests on the adjacent crash site.

Further information: https://www.crashtest-service.com/de/seminare/aktuelle-termine/

"Testing of road restraint systems; Testing of support structures for road equipment; Testing of vehicle security barrier systems" - this is the official description on the accreditation certificate that CTS now holds according to the new DIN ISO/IEC 17025:2018 standard for testing laboratories. The conversion, carried out by DAkkS (Deutsche Akkreditierungsstelle GmbH), is the basic prerequisite for CTS to continue performing industrial tests to the highest standard. "We are very pleased that we were once again able to meet the high demands of the DAkkS. Especially the flexible accreditation according to Category I allows us to steadily expand our service portfolio. ", says Michel Osterkemper (Head of Technical Department/QMR). In addition, "Low Speed Impact Tests" can now also be carried out on vehicle security barriers in accordance with PAS 170-1.

More than 60 new crash tests from the DTC and AXA Winterthur are online in the CTS webshop since last week. These crash tests deal especially with the topics of parking lot collisions and load securing. We are very pleased about the new crash tests and hope that they will be of use to you. 

The WWU (Westfälische Wilhelms Universität Münster) conducted crash tests with the PRIMUS dummy on the CTS site as part of a research project. In cooperation with the engineering firm Schimmelpfennig + Becke and Accidenta, the motion behavior of dummies and real people was investigated in collisions with low overlap. 

The team of CTS sincerely thanks you for a good cooperation, for the trust you have placed in us and for the pleasant collaboration. We wish you and your family a merry and blessed Christmas. Have a good new year!

Our office will be closed between christmas and the new year.    

The worldwide demand for the PRIMUS dummy is steadily increasing. In cooperation with our sales partner Kistler, three dummies left the factory for China and Portugal for the first time last week.

Know-how and precision are the key elements in the production of the biofidelic dummy "PRIMUS". The new video "CTS dummy solution: Our brand new PRIMUS-DUMMY" on the CTS-YouTube channel shows how this special dummy is produced in the in-house manufactory.

Dr. Mirko Dobberstein (Managing Director of CTS): "The cooperation with Kistler gives us the opportunity to distribute our biofidel dummy worldwide and to develop new applications in the process".

For further information please see the official press release.

The ZDF has conducted an experiment on this. The role played by the PRIMUS dummy can be seen in the current episode "Tatort Antike: Rätselhafte Gewalt" (from min. 25.50). 

Last week about 20 legal trainees met at the crash site in Münster-Wolbeck for a training course.  In addition to a tour of the crash facility and interesting technical presentations by Dr. rer. nat. Ingo Holtkötter (Managing Director Schimmelpfennig + Becke) and Dipl.-Ing. Peter Schimmelpfennig (Managing Partner CTS), all participants were able to take part live in a high-speed crash test.