Machine Shop
To supplement and support transportation research, VTTI holds a fully staffed and equipped automotive repair and fabrication shop for modification and instrumentation of experimental vehicles and infrastructure. Technicians and engineers use full-scale machine and welding shops to construct, modify, and repair equipment related to vehicle instrumentation and infrastructure.
Some of the equipment available in the machine shop includes the following:
- Welding: TIG, MIG, stick welders.
- Cutting: plasma arc cutter, horizontal band saw.
- Computer Numerical Control Mill, Machining: drill press, engine lathe, vertical mill, power threader.
- Computer aided design workstations.
- Miscellaneous Tools: powder coating, sheet metal bending brake, hand tools, pipe bender, vehicle lift, electronic diagnostic tools.