Building A Banked Track Is A Balancing Act

Mitchell Machine Works is well known for its Magic Carpet, a hydraulically driven roller system that can roll up, or roll out, an entire sports field of turf in a matter of minutes. Because of this Mitchell Machine Works was given the opportunity to build an indoor running track.This track needed to be oval and instead of being flat, the indoor running track had to be hydraulically driven, because some indoor track events use a banked surface, and others use a flat surface.

To transform this seemingly intractable problem into something more manageable,Mitchell looked to IronCAD. Mitchell was able to create a robust CAD model using IronCAD that gave him great insight into how the hydraulic system worked. Mitchell could accurately measure how much each hydraulic cylinder would move at different points along its path as it was raised and lowered.