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Automotive
- Automotive
- - Testing and fatigue strength
    - Testing and fatigue strength
    - Complete vehicles
    - Vehicle bodies
    - Chassis
    - Engine & Powertrain
    - Interiors
    - Safeguarding mechatronic systems
    - Advice on Test Programmes and Test Signals
  - Design & Realisation of Test Benches
    - Design & Realisation of Test Benches
    - Springs
    - Steering Systems
    - Sensores
    - Anti-roll bars
    - Electric drives and actuators
    - Parameter verification • E/E funktion
    - Comprehensive options for safeguarding mechatronic systems
    - General Contractor for Special Test Benches
  - Development Services
    - Development Services
    - Technical Calculations
    - Acoustics, Vibration Behaviour and Dynamic Loads
    - Vehicle and System Simulation
    - Function Development
    - Functional Safety
    - Test Management and Function Tests
    - Virtual Testing
  - Climatic Environmental Simulation
    - Climatic Environmental Simulation
    - Temperature Tests & Climatic Tests
    - High altitude tests / Low pressure tests
    - Solar Simulation
    - IP protection class tests / Splash water tests / Dust tests
    - Fluid Susceptibility Test & Corrosion Test
  - Materials Testing and Failure Analysis
  - Publications
InfoCom
- InfoCom
Mobility • Energy
- Mobility • Energy
- - Rail & track
    - Rail & track
    - Fatigue strength
    - Environmental simulation
    - Test benches
    - Impact testing
    - Failure analysis
    - Simulation
  - Testing and qualifying hydrogen technologies
  - Construction of burst chambers
  - Testing under pressure: hydrogen in operation
  - Nuclear technology
  - Safeguarding of artificial intelligence (AI)
  - Engineering and Support of wind energy plants
    - Engineering and Support of wind energy plants
    - Technical computations and system simulation
  - Testing & qualification of wind energy plants
    - Testing & qualification of wind energy plants
    - Test stand construction and testing
    - Testing and Fatigue Strength
    - Materials Testing and Failure Analysis
  - Mobility services
    - Mobility services
    - Inductive energy transmission
Environment & geodata service
- Environment & geodata service
- - Geodata technologies
    - Geodata technologies
    - Artificial Intelligence and Neural Networks
    - Geoinformatics
    - Remote Sensing
    - Radar Remote Sensing and Interferometry
    - Digital Photogrammetry
  - Geodata services
  - Environmental services & geospatial solutions
    - Environmental services & geospatial solutions
    - Land recycling
    - Remediation
    - Environmental consulting
    - Environmental impact analysis
    - Project management
    - Biological remediation procedures
    - Expert reports/investigations
  - Areas of application
  - Publications
Aeronautics
- Aeronautics
- - Experimental testing
    - Experimental testing
    - Structural tests
    - Functional tests
    - Product qualification • RTCA/DO-160 testing
    - Materials Testing and Failure Analysis
    - Flight tests
    - Virtual Testing
  - Development of functional and system test benches
  - Structural monitoring, inspection and analysis
  - Functional Safety and Operational Safety
  - Provision of the test infrastructure
    - Provision of the test infrastructure
    - Our test halls and test sites
    - Functional test benches
  - References
  - Publications
Space
- Space
- - Mechanical Tests
  - Space Simulation tests
  - Electromagnetic Tests
    - Electromagnetic Tests
    - Electromagnetic compatibility (EMC)
    - Magnetic field measurement / Magnetic field simulation
  - Infrastructure
  - Engineering support
  - Management consulting
    - Management consulting
    - Programme Support
    - Consulting on the implementation of management systems
  - Project references
Defence & Security
- Defence & Security
Innovation

Focus Topics
Safe mobility of the future
Safeguarding Artificial intelligence (AI)
Secure and Resilient Society
- Secure and Resilient Society
- - SPARTA: AI-supported analysis of real-time Twitter data
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Structural monitoring, inspection and analysis

The safe and economically optimised use of aircraft is realised through continuous product support – from design, via operation to final retirement – and through targeted integrity management. Service life monitoring as well as knowledge of load and stress lead to more safety, more reliability and increase availability. The comparison of actual stresses with results from verification qualifications enables efficient control of maintenance measures, modifications and service life extension programmes. We actively contribute our long-term experience in structural monitoring to the optimisation of maintenance.

Integrity management for safe operation, efficient maintenance and optimised availability

Structural Health Monitoring (SHM)

Continuous structural monitoring provides knowledge on stress and strain:

Application of modern technologies for the acquisition and evaluation of flight parameters and structural stresses in operation
Software-supported and automated determination of lifetime consumption in use
AI-supported analysis of measurement data for monitoring and condition prediction

Fleet management

Database-supported control of service life-relevant material maintenance measures

Comparison of operational and qualification stresses
Identification and analysis of structural weaknesses
Transfer of findings from operational measurements (OLM) to individual aircraft and / or the entire fleet
Analyses of large data volume with various AI methods

Maintenance optimisation

Targeted reduction of maintenance expenditure through the development and monitoring of “Structural Sampling Programs”
Database-supported control of general material maintenance measures, Fleet Leader inspections and corrosion protection measures
Consideration of failure analyses and assessments in the holistic context of maintenance
Advice on the implementation of modifications and product optimisation

Structural inspection

Ensuring the structural integrity of an aircraft requires specific structural analyses and adapted structural inspections (visual, NDT). IABG provides expert advice concerning suitable measures for sustaining structural integrity and provide qualified technical personnel to perform structural inspections.

Structural inspections

Non-destructive tests (NDT) with state-of-the-art equipment (UT, PAUT, ET, PT, MT – Levels 2 and 3 – as well as visual inspection incl. video endoscopy)
Destructive inspections (e.g. teardown inspections)
Use of dedicated inspection procedures for composite materials such as CFRP, GLARE, etc.
Application of optical systems to establish a geometrical data-base (ARAMIS, PONTOS) and to detect plastic deformations, buckling etc.
Preparation of inspection programmes and instructions

Damage documentation

Development and use of a location-independent damage documentation platform (DamDoc)
Definition and implementation of customer-specific interfaces (VNC)
Interaction with software-based customer platforms for structural inspection programmes

Structural analysis

Structural components can be analysed in our own materials testing laboratory (accredited in compliance with DIN EN ISO 17025). We conduct the tests in combination with structural strength calculations and damage analyses.

Material investigations

Determination of material properties
Material qualification
Further development of test methods and repair procedures
Characterisation of composite materials

Strength tests, calculations, method development

Identification of static, cyclic and fracture-mechanical properties in sample tests, including effects of thermal constraints
Establishment and parameterisation of material models
Evaluation of operational loads
Calculation of local strains and damage distribution
Optimisation of components with respect to fatigue strength
Development and optimisation of calculation and verification methods
Fatigue strength verification

Certification advice

Our experienced employees provide the following support in connection with the certification of new aircraft:

Consulting, certification-related technical evaluation and analysis of airframe, propulsion system, aircraft performance, avionics, software safety and IT security
Consulting and assistance with project planning, test management, certification methodology and procedures
Technical and scientific advice on structural issues in connection with the development and operation of aircraft
Evaluation of structural issues in connection with the certification and qualification of aircraft
EASA-qualified entity (EASA.2012.DE.QEIABG.01)

Brochures & flyers

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Aeronautic Test Benches

Non-Destructive Testing (NDT)

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Customer Audits

Customer Audits

Kopter Group AG Industrial Maturity Management Audit, 2020
Airbus S.A.S., 2010, 2011, 2017
Airbus Helicopters, 2015
Eurocopter, 2012
Bombardier Aerospace, 2012
EADS Elbe Flugzeugwerke GmbH, 2011
ASCO Industries N.V., 2011
AREVA NP GmbH, 2007
Rolls-Royce Deutschland Ltd & Co KG, 2007
MTU Aero Engines, 2004
Patria Finavicomp Oy (Finnland), 2004
Airbus Deutschland GmbH, 2002
Verizon, Underwriters Laboratories Inc. (USA) 2002

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