Welcome to CAPE, the Center for Advanced Product Evaluation, a state-of-the-art facility created specifically for the evaluation of vehicle and occupant safety.

Welcome to CAPE, the Center for Advanced Product Evaluation, a confidential, state-of-the-art facility complete with the resources to develop and evaluate vehicles, vehicle systems and vehicle components for structural integrity, robustness, crashworthiness and occupant protection. Our test centers and equipment are sized to handle an extremely broad range of test specimens from a simple component such as an interior console to a full size tractor/trailer.

CAPE Observation Room Equipped with state-of-the-art technology	Fabrication Shop Metal fabrication shop supports vehicle and sled preparation	Rollover Machine Designed to simulate a lateral roll about a fixed tire ground contact point.

LOCATION
CAPE is located in Westfield, Indiana just minutes north of Indianapolis.

OUR FACILITY
We have climate controlled buildings, 2 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. The barrier face is 28’ x 14’ and has a mass of over 1.5 millions pounds allowing tests of very heavy mass vehicles. Multiple fixtures and adapters can be added to the barrier face to simulate impacts other than full frontal impacts. A 24’ x 9’ film pit allows under vehicle video coverage of large vehicles. The outside track is suitable for a vehicle to vehicle type testing. The other buildings house the third crash sled, rollover, quasi-static, impact, airbag and pyrotechnic and vibration test centers. Our observation rooms are equipped with state-of-the-art technology allowing you to review the events captured by digital imagers and a data acquisition system immediately after the test. We have a fully equipped machine shop for fixture fabrication. We have secure work bays to accommodate virtually any size vehicle for test preparation and fabrication and a staff that can quickly respond to your testing challenges including test component modifications if required.

CONFIDENTIALITY
The layout of the entire facility has been designed specifically to maintain confidentiality for our customers, even for outdoor testing.

QUALIFIED AND DEDICATED STAFF
While buildings and equipment provide useful tools, it is our staff that can leverage these tools to get the job done. In addition to engineering and technical personnel to support your project needs, CAPE is unique in that we employ an Applied Mechanics Engineering staff that can provide engineering modeling and analysis support to a wide range of vehicle and component projects. This engineering simulation team uses advanced tools such as MSC/Marc, Patran, MADYMO, LS-Nike and LS-Dyna for structural analysis, vehicle dynamics, crashworthiness analysis and occupant simulations.

Final Preparation Building Prior to testing, final checks are made in an environmentally controlled building.

Vehicle Bays Confidential vehicle preparation perfomed in restricted bays