TEST CENTRE
The Test Centre has an Adjustable Testing Hangar with up to 1,800m2 unencumbered area and 900m2 of slotted reinforced floor. It does also have a 10t overhead crane that moves along 80m.
The Centre conducts parts and structural components tests, material testing and experimental stress analysis and possesses a metrological laboratory.
PARTS AND STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS TESTS
Static and fatigue of aircraft airframes, their parts and structural components
Strength tests of metallic and composite structures with ambient conditions influence
Residual static strength tests
Aircraft airframe and their parts rigidity tests
Coupon, panel and structural part static and fatigue testing
Crack growth monitoring and analysis
Fracture toughness tests (K-factor, J-integral, plastic zone, ...)
Testing process controlled by strain, force or hysteresis loop magnitude
Impact damage simulation
Metallographic and failure surface analysis
Materials micro structure evaluation
Non-destructive Testing
Structure health monitoring
Probability of detection and inspection reliability evaluation
Design of periodic inspections scheme
Validation of method and equipment capability
Life extension of aging structures by damage tolerance approach utilization
REVERSE ENGINEERING AND METROLOGY
LABORATORY
Coupons and parts dimensional control, before and after destructive tests
Geometry scanning using Noncontact 3D Scanning
Measurement evaluation
Basic digitization works
Advice services regarding the geometry scanning needs during the part design process (coordinate system transfer, tooling, etc.)