Mechanical impact tests
Ensuring the strength and reliability of your equipment
Why carry out mechanical impact tests?
Mechanical shock is one of the major stresses encountered by a wide range of industrial and technological equipment during its lifecycle. These tests are essential for validate the resistance of products and comply with standards and technical specifications.
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Shock tests, the current typology of shocks
Our laboratories are equipped to carry out various types of tests:
- Half-sine shocks
- Sawtooth shocks
- Trapezoidal shocks
- Shock Response Spectrum (SRC)
- Landing and catapulting shocks
Our associated skills in mechanical shocks
- Simulation of pyrotechnic shocks and shock response spectra.
- Accelerometric measurements on equipment can be carried out.
- Possibility of producing "à la carte" shocks with different durations and amplitudes
Our mechanical impact testing services
Aerospace
Defence
Automotive and Rail
Industry and the general public
Our mechanical impact testing capabilities and technical resources
Conventional impact machines
- Mechanical impact tables 400 mm x 400 mm and 900 mm x 900 mm.
- Capacity : 1 to 1000 g, duration 1 to 170 ms.
- Half-sine shock tests.
Pyrotechnic shocks
- Simulation of pyrotechnic impacts and spectra of responses to impacts by metal-metal impact, mainly for the defence and space industries.
- 3 test facilities: one guided free-fall and 2 pendulum types
- For equipment weighing up to 60kg
- Free-fall capacity: up to 30,000g in time, up to 5,000g at 1kHz in SRC.
- Pendulum capacity: up to 5,000g in time, up to 3,000g at 1kHz in SRC.
- Sampling frequency 204.8kHz up to 16 measurement channels (+ on request)
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Shock performed on electrodynamics vibrators
- Half-sine and saw-tooth impact tests, impact response spectra.
- Capacity up to 305,000 N.
Packaging off-cuts tests
Variable height tests to assess packaging and product resistance
Standards applicable to mechanical impact tests
We carry out tests that comply with the main international standards:
- IEC 60068-2-27 : Shock tests on equipment.
- IEC 61373: Railway testing.
- RTCA DO 160: Aeronautical testing.
- MIL STD 810, STANAG 4370, GAM EG 13: Specific defence and space standards.
- ECS-E-HB-32-25A : Simulation of pyrotechnic shocks in space.
With the Emitech Group, integrating impact testing into product development
- Preliminary analysis: Definition of requirements and test design.
- Performing the tests: Laboratory implementation according to your needs.
- Interpretation of results: Drafting of reports and optimisation recommendations.
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