Drive-In Rain Test Chamber – Twin Shower

The Drive-In Rain Test Chamber is generally used to conduct whole body testing of assembled vehicles under different rain test procedures to study and estimate their structural degradations and destructions induced by rain/water. The twin shower area with 1.1 million litre & 0.35 million litre volume is enclosed in a shed where arrays of pipes are interconnected to form zones to ensure the uniform spraying as per JSS 55555 test standard. The water gushes through the nozzle at a flow rate of up to 288 cu m/hr and the test chamber water collection system have a central grating with sufficient slope to collect the sprayed water during operation and circulate it back to the water reservoir to ensure close loop circulation.

The Driving rain test facility is divided into multiple zones. The operation of these zones is as per the requirement of JSS-55555. Number of zones for “Shower No.1” is 4 (5 meter width for each zone) and for “Shower No.2” is 2 (5 meter width for each zone. SCADA based report generation/monitoring system is provided for water flow rate, water pressure versus duration in graphical and tabular format.