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MicroStrain’s® Wireless Sensors Measure Vehicle Acceleration in The Discovery Channel’s First Episode of Smash Lab

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MicroStrain installed wireless accelerometers into vehicles that were used to test the effectiveness of crash barriers made from aerated concrete during the first episode of The Discovery Channel’s Smash Lab.

The accelerometers were used to measure the deceleration of vehicles when crashed into other vehicles, standard crash barriers and barriers made with aerated concrete.  The premise of this episode was to determine whether the aerated concrete used at the end of airport runways in “arrestor beds” to stop aircraft that overshoot a runway can be used to slow down vehicles that cross the median of a highway.


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