Business Fields
Automotive
- Automotive
- - Testing and fatigue strength
    - Testing and fatigue strength
    - Complete vehicles
    - Vehicle bodies
    - Chassis
    - Engine & Powertrain
    - Interiors
    - Electronics
    - 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
    - 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
    - Materials Testing and Failure Analysis
    - Macroscopy and Stereoscopy
    - Metallography / Materialography
    - Hardness Testing
    - Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM)
    - Zeiss Merlin Gemini Scanning Electron Microscope
    - Chemical and Physical Materials Analyses
    - Non-destructive Testing
    - micromex X-Ray Inspection System (sD/CT)
    - Environmental Simulation
    - Additive Manufacturing
  - Publications
  - Contacts
InfoCom
- InfoCom
Mobility • Energy
- Mobility • Energy
- - Rail & track
    - Rail & track
    - Fatigue strength
    - Environmental simulation
    - Test benches
    - Impact testing
    - Failure analysis
    - Simulation
  - Highly Automated • Autonomous Driving
    - Highly Automated • Autonomous Driving
    - Complete Vehicle Validation
    - Sensor System Validation
    - safeHAD: Driving functions validation • SOTIF
    - Cyber Security
    - Functional Safety and Human Factors
    - Test Benches for Active Chassis Components
    - Climatic / Environmental Simulation
    - Wheel / Tyre Testing
    - Qualification of Electrical Connectors
  - Services for nuclear powerplants
    - Services for nuclear powerplants
    - Qualification of plants and components
    - Testing and simulation of transport and storage containers
    - Climatic qualification
    - Multi-axis vibration and seismic testing
    - Seismic qualification via FEM
    - Dismantling of nuclear facilities
    - Emission monitoring
  - Virtual Reality
  - Engineering and Support
    - Engineering and Support
    - 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
  - Testing & qualification of plant components
    - Testing & qualification of plant components
    - Vibration ANALYSIS, earthquake shaking table
    - Materials Testing and Failure Analysis
  - Development and delivery of remote-control systems
  - Mobility services
    - Mobility services
    - Inductive energy transmission
Environment & geodata service
- Environment & geodata service
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
    - Mobile test infrastructure
    - 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

Structural tests

Structural tests are indispensable for the development and certification of aircraft to guarantee efficient and safe in-service operation. Our services cover all levels of the test pyramid. We test and analyse entire aircraft structures and subsystems as well as individual components, parts and material samples, in particular their fatigue and strength characteristics.

Test items range from all categories of civilian aircraft to military fighter jets. Besides experimental testing facilities and computer simulations, we offer our customers a unique combination of experiment and analysis – a service we have been offering for almost 60 years.

Fatigue tests
- Fatigue tests on complete airframes, subsystems and components
- Investigations into damage tolerance characteristics, crack initiation and propagation
Static load tests
- Static load tests of complete airframes, subsystems, components and parts, including effects of thermal constraints
- Determination of deformations, stiffness, fracture strength and fracture behaviour
Residual strength tests
Other structural tests regarding
- Aging characteristics
- Corrosion
- Wear