TEST PIT ANCHORAGE RAILS MILFORD, MICHIGAN

General Motors is upgrading dynotest pits located at Building 41 of the Milford Proving Ground.Continuous HALFEN HM 5234 mounting channels welded to I-beams will serve as vehicle and equipment anchorage points.Hot-rolled HALFEN Channel resists dynamic loads and offers the mostdurable hold-down rail solution forthe installation.

HALFEN has a range of off-the-shelfprofiles with matching t-bolts toprovide an adjustable connection that will not work loose over time, does not affect corrosion protection and permits any sized vehicle orequipment to be secured with just atorque wrench. Toothed channelsmatched with toothed t-bolts providemechanical load transfer in 3 planes.

HALFEN HM and HZM toothed channels are widely specified for vehicle test centers and production equipment, used at Audi, BMW, Chrysler, Kia, Ford, GM, Honda, and Mercedes facilities across North America and Mexico. Tier onesuppliers such as AVL, Horiba, Takataand Tenneco use HALFEN in their testequipment, as do university and statetransportation research centers.

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• Year of Construction: 2014

• Client: GM Global Facilities Engineering

• A/E Consultant: NSA Architects, Engineers, Planners

• Contractor: Versa Handling Company

• Products: HM 5234 hot-rolled channel

HALFEN Mounting Channel and HALFEN Bolt

HALFEN Mounting Channels offer designers of installations with high performance demands the ability to detail a connection without the need to know what will be fixed – now, or over the life of the machine.

Hot rolled Mounting Channels resist vibration and dynamic loads, and provide a durable and adjustable mounting point in any steel fabrication, up to 7 kips point load capacity.

HALFEN Mounting Channels provide an adjustable and durable fixing point to test equipment or complex machinery fabrications where the final equipment requirements are not known during initial base fabrication, where multiple fixing points are needed or where frequent change-outs will occur over the life of the installation.

Common applications cover the range of automobile testing equipment – dynomometers; acoustic test cells; suspension, seat belt, sled and crash test equipment, as well as the assembly of complex production and materials handling machinery for the auto, mining, baggage handling and food production industries where a modular approach to design and fabrication is desired.

• HALFEN Mounting Channels are high performance hot-rolled profiles with matching T-bolts.

• This system permits adjustment of a connection combined with high dynamic load resistance.

• HALFEN channels can be mounted to steel or supplied with anchors to provide a durable, adjustable fixing to concrete.