Components, Products and Structures

• Define appropriate tests conditions
• Establish reliable basis for accelerated testing
• Interpret modes of failure and failure mechanisms
• Support finite element analysis and life assessment studies

Service related fatigue loading

Dynamic durability testing of polymers and components under complex loading conditions in single or multi-axis (linear actuators, torsion etc) using MTS Systems Component RPC software. Service-acquired data can be analysed and used to control the test machine actuators. Service data can also be analysed to define accelerated fatigue test conditions.

• Anti-vibration components for automotive, rail, oil & gas, marine and civil engineering (mounts, bushes, hangers etc)
• Bonded structures
• Medical devices and implants
• Inflatable dams for irrigation schemes
• Aircraft canopy and windscreen seal crack growth studies
• Rotor components fabricated from composite materials
• Aircraft landing gear, brakes and seals
• Materials tests on radomes fabricated from sandwich structures
• Rocket motor propellants performance
• Aero engine seals and components
• Torsional testing of automotive and aerospace drive shafts
• Changes in load profile of medical devices through fatigue and wear
• Understanding fatigue failure of automotive hydro-mounts and replicating the failure on a test rig
• Rail pads in bi-axial shear/compression
• Design optimisation of suspension bushes for low fatigue – includes geometry and rubber compound developments and improved low temperature performance