This Massive 1,000 HP Carousel Tests The Longevity Of Road Surfaces | Carscoops carscoops
The ability of a road surface to handle years of abuse is something that, as you may have intuited, is very important. But how do roadbuilders test the performance of different materials?they use the Fatigue Carousel, which looks like a massive spinning top with four arms.
Each arm makes contact with the road using road tires and the arms are designed to simulate the weight of a heavy vehicle. and spins the wheels around a ring of road made up of whatever material needs testing. This particular machine, located in Nantes and filmed by YouTube’s Tom Scott, is one of the largest on earth and it can run at speeds of up to 100 km/h , though it normally runs closer to 70 km/h .
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