AEROSPACE RESEARCH AND TEST ESTABLISHMENT

• Coupon, panel and structural part static and fatigue testing
  
• Crack growth monitoring and analysis
  
• Fracture toughness tests (K-factor, J-integral, plastic zone, ...)
  
• Contact corrosion tests
  
• Hot-Wet testing
  
• Testing process controlled by strain, force or hysteresis loop magnitude
  
• Impact damage simulation
  
• Metallographic and failure surface analysis
  

• Fatigue and static loading test machines MTS, Instron Schenck, Tira, Inova, Instron and Amsler up to 500 kN
  
• Laboratory for metallographic and fracture surfaces analysis:
  
  • Metallographic microscope GX51 BF/DF (1000x)
    
  • Optical microscope Olympus SZ40 (50x)
    
  • Spectrometers BAIRD Foundrymate + PerkinElmer
    
  • Precision balance
    
• Contactless strain and stress analysis
  • Q 100 (Electronic Speckle Pattern Interferometry)
  • ARAMIS 3D HS + PONTOS (Digital Image Correlation)
    
  • Laser interferometry extensometer MessPhysik
    
  • SPATE 4000 (Thermoelasticimetry)
    
• Photoelasticimetry
  
• Different types of mechanical extensometers
  
• System BMS for continual multichannel strain measurement
  
• Climate chambers HSR and TestAir (temperature range - 40 °C up to + 250°C, humidity up to 95%)
  
• High temperature furnace SIGMATEST up to 1 100 °C
  
• Crack growth monitoring system FRACTOMAT
  

ČSN, ASTM, MMPDS, MIL, JSME, DIN, DEF-STAN

• companies from all industry branches, universities, other research institutes