The Siemens Industry Software Simcenter engineers put the end-to-end durability solution to the test on the rough tracks of a German proving ground. The outcome is a step-by-step account of a test campaign that demonstrates the effectiveness of the solution. The story starts with a small but punchy electric sports vehicle that grew into a test vehicle for a condensed but complete durability measurement campaign.

Strain gauge can be briefly described as sensor that can measure the strain value (unitless) of structure that is being subjected to specific loading. Strain gauge works based on change of sensor element resistance (resistive based sensor). By using Wheatstone bridge, this resistance change will be converted to voltage and read by data acquisition system.

Many industries are still running "trial and error" to find solutions to vibration/durability issues during prototype testing. This option may be taken due to a few reasons. Running a more systematic approach to finding solutions to vibration/durability issues may need some investment in terms of hardware, software, and also infrastructure.