Prototype & test center
Shaping your future with agile Innovation and Expertise
ABOUT US
For about 40 years, Prototype & Test Center has been providing assistance to its customers with a complete range of services from prototyping, test engineering & tests.
Prototype & Test Center supports its customers with cost effective solutions thru all steps in the development process from test strategy to in flight Certification.
This Test Center relies on core values that contributed to its success : on-time delivery, agility, know-how, with the leading players in aeronautical structures such as Airbus, Bombardier, Dassault, Embraer, Pilatus, ...
The long-history of expertise developed by Prototype & Test Center is now available to the automotive, railway, military, space and wind industry.
With more than 30.000 ft² of dedicated test facilities, Sonaca's Prototype & Test Center has more than 30 engineers and technicians on Gosselies' facility (Brussels South) in the heart of Europe. Testing facility is AS9100 accredited.
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
R&D Mechanical Testing
Mechanical Testing Services, from International Standards to specific customer challenges
Instrumentation & Measurement
Enhancing your end-to-end instrumentation & measurement requests from design to R&D, industrialization and structures at serial standard
Development & Certification Test Center
When development and structural testing meet cleverness
Computer-aided solutions
From thorough analysis of your computational lab challenges
to meaningful IT-solutions
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
R&D Mechanical Testing
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
Development & Certification Test Center
Computer-aided solutions
Thermal Cycling and Thermal Vacuum Testing for Space
Proven experience in Static, Fatigue & Endurance Testing
Proven experience in System Testing
Specifications
Currently used in our test center
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Sonaca Group
Sonaca's strategy is to become a leading Tier-1 and Tier-2 player in Aerospace by leveraging its distinctive technical expertise and longstanding partnerships with customers and suppliers.
Sonaca will achieve this through customer focus, innovation, operational excellence, and selected partnerships all in the service of providing our customers with the most competitive and reliable product offering available. Sonaca's core focus continues to be Aerostructures - in particular wing skins and moveables where it is the world leader - but also other Aerostructures, Space, Military, and Engineering.
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