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VZLU AEROSPACE is equipped with comprehensive personnel, testing, infrastructure, and methodological resources for the experimental verification of static strength, fatigue life, and dynamic characteristics of aircraft structures. The laboratories are fully integrated into aircraft development and certification processes (EASA/FAA), enabling demonstration of compliance for airframes, assemblies, subassemblies, and individual components.
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Our expertise focuses primarily on:
- Static testing of complete airframes in a “free-floating” configuration (the aircraft suspended in equilibrium, without fixed ground restraints)
- Static tests of aircraft parts and components
- Testing of the residual static strength of fatigue-damaged structures
- Fatigue tests of aircraft airframes and individual structural components
- Combined static and fatigue tests of composite structures
- Pressure testing of fuselages (cabin pressurization testing)
- Testing of structures in extreme conditions (elevated or reduced temperatures)
- Drop and impact testing
- Acoustic testing and acoustic fatigue
- Leak-tightness and structural durability testing of tanks under simulated mechanical loading conditions
- Functional testing of electromechanical mechanisms under realistic operational loads
- Ground vibration testing
- Operational modal analysis
- Modal and vibration tests
- Structure resistance to high-velocity impacts (FOD) – Bird Strike tests (projectile mass ranging from 0.5 to 4 kg, impact velocities from 150 to 650 km/h, with the capability to heat or cool the test article)
- Hail strike tests (Hailstones with diameters of 1–3 inches, impacting at velocities of 80–650 km/h)
- Simulation of structural damage using various types of impactors
- Static testing of wheels (ETSO-C26d)
- Wheel taxiing tests (ETSO-C26d, ARP5381 rev. A.)
- Fire resistance and heat-proof tests (ISO 2685 and RTCA DO-160)