Crash Test and Safety Development Prototypes

Livernois is the preeminent supplier of crash and safety testing services to the automotive industry. Over the years, we have developed our specialty in this crucial field to include support of all FMVSS, IIHS, and European standards and procedures.

Crash Test Vehicles

Crash test vehicles typically require extra-ordinary fabrication, dimensional control, content control, instrumentation reliability, scheduling, and hundreds of pre- and post- test measurements for CAE model correlation.

Livernois has prepared thousands of crash test vehicles and along the way has shown how to streamline the overall crash preparation and test process to prevent backlogs at the barrier and improve the overall development cycle.

Critical Subsystems

Subsystem elements such as roof pillars, fuel tanks, rails, and beams are critical to occupant protection. The advancement of safety standards and the increased use of high-strength steel and other advanced materials in the quest for improved fuel economy present increasing challenges to automotive engineers. LVD’s fabrication shop works with automotive engineers every day to prepare test specimens, improve strength and deformation characteristics, and understand subsystem behavior in crash, roof crush, and other testing.

Instrument panels, seats, and restraints must work in harmony with each other to protect occupants during a collision. Restraint and seat positioning, the timing, duration, and level of airbag deployment, and the behavior of the IP structure must be tuned for maximum protection. Livernois develops, builds, and maintains the sled bucks used to support the iterative controlled testing required for this vital work. Our seat shop builds and trims seats to H-Point and other specifications, and our fabrication shop builds prototype IP structures to exacting specifications.

New Concepts in Safety

Looking beyond the current state of the art and regulations, Livernois has assisted in building and development of concept demonstration prototypes used to evaluate advanced safety technologies.