END-TO-END MATERIALS TESTING SERVICES
Applus+ is an strategic supplier of materials testing services for the aerospace industry. We provide an end-to-end testing service, covering a wide range of materials characterization tests combined with sample manufacturing and machining capabilities.
MECHANICAL TESTING
- Tensile
- Compression
- Bearing
- Shear
- Flexural
- Drum peel
- High-cycle fatigue
- Low-cycle fatigue
- Crack propagation/crack growth
- Creep
- High strain rate
- Temperatures from -196ºC to +1200ºC
SAMPLE PREPARATION
- Composite samples manufacturing
- Test samples machining and preparation
- Tabs bonding
- Low-stress grinding and polishing
- Samples conditioning
PHYSICAL-CHEMICAL TESTING
- Thermal analysis
- Physical analysis
- Rheological analysis
- Chemical analysis
METALLURGY & FAILURE ANALYSIS
- Metallographic examinations
- Grain size
- Hardness
- Behavior in environmental conditions / corrosion
- Surface treatment testing
- Failure analysis
- Chemical analysis (OES)
NON-DESTRUCTIVE TESTING
- Manual & automated NDT
- Techniques: VT, PT, MT, UT & ET
A network of fully-accredited laboratories
Our network of materials testing laboratories in Europe and Asia are Nadcap accredited for metallic and non metallic materials testing. Applus+ materials laboratories is also approved by the leading aircraft manufacturers and their Tier 1 suppliers.
ISO / IEC 17025 Accreditation
- Composites Testing
- Metals & Alloys Testing
- Polymers
- Coating
NADCAP Accreditation
- Materials Testing Laboratory
- Non Metallic Materials Testing
- Non-destructive Testing
Customer Approvals
- Airbus
- Airbus Helicopters
- Airbus Space & Defense
- Embraer
- Comac
- Safran
- Honeywell
- Avic
- Aubert&Duval
- Areva
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Customer support along the entire value chain
- Material characterization: manufacturing & testing
- Raw material-incoming inspection activities
- Control process testing
- First-part qualification and witness testing
- Failure analysis for in-service support
- R&D support
Digital solutions for materials testing, CAE simulation and materials data-management
- TestPaks®: select material models, order tests online, convert data parameters and receive CAE-ready files
- CAETestBench®: validate your simulation against the results of laboratory-testing on standardized parts
- Matereality®: Software and infrastructure for material data management
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Specialist in aero-engines materials testing
- Fully equipped to work at high temperatures to support aero engine testing needs
- End to end capabilities: samples extraction, machining, dimensional check and testing
- Nadcap MTL accreditation for testing (A), (B), (KR), (O), (P), (XE), (Y) and machining (Z), (Z2)
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