engineering services
Prototype & test center
Shaping your future with agile Innovation and Expertise
Services
Prototypes Manufacturing
Manufacturing and assembly of your hybrid metal/composite specimens or full-scale structures for transportation applications, from preliminary study to serial standard delivery
- Proactive integrated team
- Manufacturing of composites specimens
- Specialists in instrumented sub-components
- On time guaranteed prototype delivery
- CAO - GPAO - SAP supports
R&D Mechanical Testing
Mechanical Testing Services, from International Standards to specific customer challenges
- Efficient in customized testing
- Experimented team
- On-schedule delivery
- Wide capacity in international standards testing
- High quality engineering reports
Instrumentation & Measurement
Enhancing your end-to-end instrumentation & measurement requests from design to R&D, industrialization and structures at serial standard
- Certified expert teams
- Innovative and pro-active specialists
- More than 30 years experience
- Last generation measurement equipment
- Instrumentations of all kinds
Development & Certification Test Center
When development and structural testing meet cleverness
- Acknowledged team expertise
- Large scale fully adaptable test set-up
- Huge variety of sensors
- Static, fatigue, endurance, damage tolerance tests
- Advanced measurements Know-how in System testing
Computer-aided solutions
From thorough analysis of your computational lab challenges
to meaningful IT-solutions
- R&D agile IT support
- Robust Software
- Wide range of innovative IT solutions
- Real Time acquisitions and signal treatment
- Efficient personalized approach
Competences
Advanced structures
When your next product needs an enhanced structural solution, we rely on our know-how and long term experience to optimize your weight-costs-stability-reliability &life-assessment.
Material & Process Expertise
When your next products need Material & Process selection & qualification up to Qualification Test Plans and Certification handbooks.
Advanced systems
We offer you an outstanding performance capability for extremely resilient solutions, complex mechanisms and anti-icing systems.
Innovation
Manufacturing of prototypes and testing are part of the smart Innovation loop. Within a “Lean Startup” mindset, our teams are trained to lead ideation worshop and drive development of new idea till implementation of new business.
Also at your premises with your teams.
Complete Structural Impact Innovation
Complete Structural Impact Innovation provides full assistance to its customers with cost-effective solutions from Design to Prototyping up to Certification tests supported by numerical simulations.
CSI² supports its customers thru all steps in the development process related to foreign object (bird, hail, gravel, tyre and metallic débris) or ballistic impacts from test strategy to Certification.
This Service has already satisfied the leading players in aeronautical structures such as Airbus, Airbus Military, Bombardier, Embraer, Dassault-Aviation, Pilatus.
Capabilities
Prototypes Manufacturing
- Prototype Manufacturing: 450 m² [4840ft²]
- CNC specimens cutting
- 4 conventional milling machines, up to : 6,50 m [21 ft]
- 1 conventional turning lathe
- 1 granite table for Assy and control : 15 m² [160 ft²]
- Direct access to all Sonaca machines processes, welding area and expertise
R&D Mechanical Testing
- R&D laboratory : 250 m² [2700 ft²]
- 8 test machines, up to : 500 kN [112000 lb]
- Fatigue testing up to 50 Hz
- Impact test bench, up to : 130 J [95 lb.ft]
- Test conditions : -150°C to +300°C
- Moisture conditioning : 600 L
- Metallography : 100 m² [1000 ft²]
Erosion
Rain Erosion Test Bench
We have developed a robust Rain Erosion Test Bench delivering OEM & Tier1s in aero structures with accurate results on samples.
The bench test equipment is dedicated to deliver results from rain droplets impacts event. DVI (detailed visual inspection), IMI (microscopic inspections) and measure of weight loss are performed for damage characterization.
Controlled Erosion Tribometer
We have developed a dust erosion test bench delivering movables and seal manufacturers with accurate and reliable results @RT or LT.
The test equipment is intended to provide results simulating impacts of solid microparticles occurring during flights. The IVC (detailed visual inspection) and IMI (microscopic inspection) and the measurement of mass loss are performed for damage characterization.
The tribometry bench used at the SONACA Test Center is using an instrumented precision micro-sander and the ASTM G76-95 standard allowing comparative tests on flat coupons or seal samples.
Instrumentation & Measurement
- Instrumentation Lab : 250 m² [2700 ft²]
- Dielectric strength tests bench : 50 m² [540 ft²]
- Flow & vibrations test benches : 250 m² [2700 ft²]
- Data loggers, up to : 180 channels
Development & Certification Test Center
- 3 Structural test benches : 1400 m² [15000 ft²]
- 2 system test benches : 200 m² [2150 ft²]
- #max of strain gauges : 450 (5x90)
- # of large structural tests : 9
- Max jacks / test : 16 + 22
- 45 actuators, up to : 300 kN [74200 lb]
- Direct access to all Sonaca NDT machines, processes and expertise
Computer-aided solutions
- NI LabWindows/CVI, C/C++
- Sybase Power Builder, Java
- VBA (Office 2010)
- SQL Server, Oracle
Thermal Cycling and Thermal Vacuum Testing for Space
- Suitable for microsatellite and space equipment
- Thermal Cycling chamber (max. 390 mm) for life testing (-130 °C to 130 °C)
- High Vacuum Thermal Chamber (max. 500 mm) (-160 °C to 180 °C)
- ISO8 Cleanroom Access to/from chamber
Proven experience in Static, Fatigue & Endurance Testing
- BizJet Movable & Fixed Leading Edge (structure & mechanisms)
- Single aisle Civilian Aircraft Movable & Fixed Leading Edges (structure & mechanisms)
- Twin aisle Civilian Aircraft Moveable Leading Edges (structure & mechanisms)
- Regional Jet Movable Leading Edges (structure & mechanisms)
- Regional Jet Fixed Leading Edges
- BizJet Wing composite Flap & mechanisms
- Space Large 3D woven structure
- Railway infrastructure vibrations real-time acquisition
- Car manufacturing specific tooling optimization
- Satellite platform structural integrity
- Proof Load Testing
Proven experience in System Testing
- Wing anti-icing bleed optimizations
- Wing electro-thermal anti-icing development
- Wing Leading Edge Bird Strike
Events
References
Contact us
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David NICOLAS
Tel : +32 (0) 71 255 321
Serge JAMIN
Tel : +33 (0) 297 482 710
Mobile : +33 (0) 786 537 113
Jean-Louis MAGERMAN
Tel : +32 (0) 71 255 444
Mobile : +32 (0) 474 977 801
Dr Lutz ARNOLD
Tel : +49 7728 97 941
Mobile : +49 173 7046 852
Maryann EINARSON, Ph. D.
Tel : +1 425 293 0340 Ext 23323
Mobile : +1 (206) 290 3337
Graham CAMPBELL
Tel : +1 450 420 7674
Mobile : +1 (514) 717 4567
Rodrigo GARBELOTTO
Tel : +55 12 4009.8511
Mobile : +55 12 99179.7471
Jean-Louis MAGERMAN
Tel : +32 (0) 71 255 444
Mobile : +32 (0) 474 977 801
