Laboratories dedicated to mechanical, climatic and physico-chemical environmental simulations

Standards and specifications (not exhaustive list)

• Automotive Qualification
• Military
• Aerospace

Instrumentation implemented

• Climatic, mechanical
• Hydraulics, fluids
• Reliability

 

Salt spray test chamber

• Number: 8
• Usable volume: 0.4 to 13 m³
• Automated cycles (salt spray, drying, moist heat)

 

Thermal shock testing chambers

• Number: 6
• Temperature: -70 to +190 °C
• Transfert time: under 10 s
• Software control
• Usefull dimension (mm): 790 x 740 x 850

Climate chambers

• Number: 60
• Usefull volume: from 0,1 to 93m³
• Temperature range: -70 to +650 °C
• Rapid temperature variations: 20 °C/min
• Humididy: from 10 to 100 % Hr

Combined environment test chambers

• Number: 6
• Temperature range: -70 to +150 °C
• Rapid temperature variations: 20 °C/min
• Humididy: from 20 to 100 % Hr
• Software control, remote alarms
• Usefull dimension (mm): 1200 x 1200 x 1200

Electrodynamic shakers

• Number: 35
• Frequency: 3 to 3000 Hz
• Force: 7 to 105 kN
• Displacement: 300 mm
• Table simensions (mm): 1500 x 1500

Hydraulic actuators

• Number: 12
• Frequency: 0 to 300 Hz
• Force: 200 kN
• Displacement: 300 mm
• Table simensions (mm): 3000 x 3000

Piezo-electric shakers

• Number: 2
• Frequency: 2 kHz à 50 kHz
• Force: 250 kN
• Max. acceleration: 100g

Windmilling test bench

• Force: 5 000 N
• Frequency: 0.1 - 50 Hz,
• Max. acceleration: 30 gn
• Max. speed: 6.0 m/s
• Displacement: 350 mm peak-to-peak 
• Max. mass: 50 kg
• Associated horizontal table, adjustable from 400 mm to 600 mm

Centrifuges

• Number: 4
• Max. acceleration: 400 g
• Max. diameter: 3000 mm

Shocks machines

• Number: 8
• Max mass: 1 t
• Table simensions (mm): 800 x 800

Altitude and rapid decompression chambers

• Number: 2
• Altitude testing from 5000 feet to 100,000 feet (10 mBar).
• Overpressure tests can be carried out up to 1 relative bar or 2 absolute bar.
• Fast decompression tests can be performed in less than 7s (560 l enclosure)
• 100 mbarA in less than 2 seconds on a volume of 100 litres

Wind, sand and dust chamber

• Number: 1
• Usefull dimension (mm): 1m³ 
• Wind: adjustable speed from 2.4 to 25 m/s (on a 1m² section)
• Humidity: regulated to be less than 30% Hr
• Temperature: 23°C to 70°C
• Concentration sand and dust: 0 and 10 g/m3.

Seismic bench

• Frequency: 0.1 to 100 Hz
• 16 acquisition channels
• Sinus control, random, shock (S. R. C.) in bi-axis

 

"Together" configuration

• Force: 50kN horizontal and 2*30kN vertical
• Displacement: max. 250 mm peak-to-peak horizontal and 100 mm peak-to-peak vertical.
• Max. mass: 900 kg
• Table: 1100 * 1200mm

 

"Component" configuration

• Force: 50kN horizontal and vertical
• Displacement: max. 250 mm peak-to-peak horizontal and vertical
• Max. mass:100 kg
• Table:  450 * 450mm

 

Measurement and data acquisition

• Capacitive accelerometer sensors, charge, ICP,...
• Wireless displacement sensors, LVDT,...
• Strain gauges
• …

Other tests

• ​Fluid contamination
• Sun exposure
• Solar rays
• Cooling, Icing
• Fire testing
• Pyrotechnic shocks
• Mould and fungus control
• Static mechanical testing up to 1500kN​

Specific measures

• ​Voltage
• Current
• Rotation speed
• Micro power cuts
• Thermal imaging
• Laser Doppler Vibrometer
• Warping and physical pressures
• ...

 

 

Fluid testing facilities from -70 to + 600 °C  

Liquids

• 6 oil systems: 1 to 75 l/min, 10 to 250 bar, -20 to 130°C
• 4 glycol benches: 8 to 14 m³/h, 3 bar, -40°C à +135°C
• 2 Skydrol units: 1 to 9 l/min, 450 bar
• 4 injection systems: 10 to 525 bar
• Auxiliary equipment: 50 kW oil heater, 700 bar hand pumps...

Air

• 1 pressure / decompression test bench: 0,1 to 2 barA
• 5 pressure / decompression chambers
• 3 air heaters 200 to 300°C – 1 x 650 kW fuel burner
• 5 x 650°C air heaters, 600°C heat chamber, 454°C / 60 bar valves ...

 

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A variety of tests

• Cyclic pressure
• Cyclic flow
• Cyclic temperature
• Circulation at controlled temperatures
• Burst resistance pressure
• Stress tests
• Pulse testing
• Power loss
• Leaks
• Rotary flexure
• Combined temperature, vibration and pressure tests
• All types of specialist testing on request

 

 

HALT System: TYPHOON 3.0

• Volume: 1140 dm³
• Temperature: -100 à +200 °C
• Rapid temperature variation: up to 60°C/min
• Vibrations:
  • random and omni-axial
  • frequency range 10 to 10000 Hz
  • maximum acceleration: 60 gRMS

 

 

Meeting the very latest reliability requirements.
At the design stage, maximise the robustness of your products by exploring the limits of their functionality and structural integrity.
In the manufacturing phase, eliminate underlying faults and optimise your fabrication processes and supply chains.