Development Activities | Testing

Our Test lab is the accredited testing laboratory according to CSN EN ISO/IEC 17025:2005 for the following activities:
- Material testing - room temperature tensile tests - metals
- Tensile properties assessment - polymers, polymeric composites
- Welded joints shearing tests
- Tensile shearing tests - glued joints
- Alternating climate tests - construction parts and assemblies for the automotive-, machine-, and electrotechnical industry; surface treatments and protection
- Salt spray corrosion tests construction parts and assemblies for the automotive-, machine-, and electro technical industry; surface treatments and protection
- Vibration tests construction - parts and assemblies for the automotive-, machine-, and electro technical industry

SERVICES:

MECHANICAL TESTS

- Tests according to the international standards EN, ISO, DIN
- Tests according to the OEM automotive producers standards
- Custom tests
- Functional tests of parts and assemblies - component tests
- Low and high cycle fatigue tests of materials, joints and functional parts
- Material tests (metals, polymers, glues, textile, composites)
- metallic-, non-metallic-, and polymeric materials joints - glues, welds, rivets, clinches, bolts...
- numerical models validation

VIBRATION TESTS

- Vibration durability tests - sine, sweep, random, shock, sine on random...
- Parts and assemblies frequency and modal analyses
- Vibration measurements and analyses
- Extreme temperature vibration testing

CLIMATIC TESTS

- Temperature tests - deformation, curing, ageing
- Climatic tests - alternating climate (temperature, humidity), artificial ageing
- Vibration measurements and analyses
- Corrosion tests - salt spray tests, condensation tests
- Temperature shock tests

OTHER TESTS

- Driving tests, measurements
- Electro mechanical components tests
- Dynamic impact tests
- Fast processes analyses, data acquisition in sync with other variables
- Development and validation tests for automotive suppliers

Technical equipment:
-- Universal testing machine 50 kN, LabTest 3.5
- Extensometer MFN A, 0-4 mm, 0-800 mm
- Servo pneumatic testing axes DYNA-MESS 10 kN, 2.5kN, speed up to 600 mm/s
- Controlled rotary servo drive Bosch- Rexroth do 200Nm
- Pneumatic cylinders - linear 0.5kN - 10kN, rotary 10- 100 Nm
- Measuring box HBM - MGA II
- Set of electronic sensors: force, stroke, torque, acceleration, pressure, temperature, humidity ...
- Measuring cards NI (USB, PCI)
- Set of laser trigonometric tracking sensors
- SW for data acquisition, analysis, and evaluation by LabView - National Instruments
- Temperature chamber BMT 110 l, 300°C
- Climatic chamber CTS 380 l, -70 ÷180°C, 0 ÷100% r.h.
- Corrosive chamber Liebisch 450 l
- Temperature shock chamber -40°C ÷180°C
- Hot bath thermostat Huber
- Stereoscopic microscope with a digital camera recording, SW for picture analysis
- Devices for testing insulation resistance, break over voltage
- Leakage tests tools
- Device for testing of the IP xx classes of protection by DIN 4050-9
- Vibration system TIRA 1,6kN, control HW and SW Vibration Research
- Vibration system LDS V850 LPT600 22kN, control HW and SW Vibration Research
- Instrumented impact tower for dynamic testing, force <10kN, energy<150J, velocity<2,5m/s
- High-speed camera system BASLER A504kc + NI Vision Development Kit, illumination system
- Mobile equipment for field modal analysis and data acquisition

The test outcomes can be made into:

- SW Lab View, LabTest, Origin
- ASCI, bin files
- data a charts in Origin or MS Excel formates
- test protocols in MS Word, PDF, hard copy
- detailed reports (MS Word, PDF, hard copy)
- presentation (MS PowerPoint, PDF, hard copy)
- photo documentation
- video records, high-speed camera records (avi, mpg)

Projects:
Škoda
BMW
Renault
Continental Automotive
Cadence Innovation