IMMI is the home of a modern crash-test facility, the Center for Advanced Product Evaluation (CAPE), which brings together advanced technology and specialized engineering expertise to provide customers with analytical information to support their most complex decisions.
Facilities and equipment are sized to handle an extremely broad range of test specimens from a single restraint system, such as a child seat, to a full size tractor/trailer vehicle.
The CAPE Facility
The CAPE facility is located in Westfield, Indiana, just minutes north of Indianapolis. CAPE is housed in three climate-controlled buildings, two of which are connected by an 800-foot long track. The main CAPE crash hall houses the calibration lab, two of the three crash sleds and the barrier. Other buildings house the third crash sled, the rollover machine, quasi-static, impact, airbag, pyrotechnic and vibration test centers. The outside track is suitable for vehicle-to-vehicle testing.
