Tilt Solutions

Ship and Barge Leveling

It is important to consider tilt in all phases of ship or barge operation including loading and unloading. The vessel’s horizontal center-of-gravity can be controlled by the ballast transfer system, or by altering the location of incoming cargo to maintain a level vessel orientation in both the longitudinal and lateral axes. Regulating the vessel’s center-of-gravity helps achieve greater safety, enhances cargo protection and lowers fuel consumption by optimizing vessel attack angle while navigating.

The ruggedized, totally sealed LCF-2000 inclinometer accurately measures tilt in both the longitudinal and lateral axes enabling automated or manual ship and barge leveling. To meet individual application requirements, the LCF-2000 is available with an integral temperature sensor and unipolar input power options.

Rail Grinding and Maintenance

Continuous railway track position measurement and maintenance are required to achieve a safe, smooth train ride; particularly for the new generation of very high speed trains. Track geometry including gauge, cant and superelevation shift over time. High accuracy inclinometers are applied both to determine critical rail position information, and to control maintenance machinery that tamps ballast, replaces crossties and regrinds railhead profiles.

The LCI inclinometer with customized dynamics, special scaling and proven long-term milli-g bias repeatability has been utilized for hundreds of thousands of miles of railroad gauge, cant and superelevation measurements throughout the world.

Motion Simulators

Motion simulation, which is normally most widely associated with aircraft, is a high fidelity artificial re-creation of a vehicle motion environment including the equations that govern performance, the reactions to operator input, and the consequential responses to other vehicle systems and the external environment. This is accomplished by placing a driver/operator/pilot and visual system on a six degree-of-freedom motion platform. Actuators support the motion platform and produce the six degrees of freedom required for accurate simulation: the rotations pitch, roll and yaw; and the linear motions heave, sway and surge.

In the highest fidelity simulators, LSO inclinometers with 4 to 20 milliamp output and µamp resolution are utilized for sensing simulator linear motions, and wide bandwidth ASXC angular accelerometers with unrivalled linear acceleration rejection sense the rotational motions.