Transfert de technologie

Applications

 > Aeronautical, Railways, Naval, Automotive

• Critical Lightweight structures.
• Critical security structures.
• Real-time monitored structures.
• Damage behaviour of materials.
• Structural morphing.
• Active control and isolation of vibrations.

Keywords

• Structural health management (SHM), Non destructive evaluation, Active control of vibrations, Active isolation of vibrations, Shape control, Sensors, Actuators, Active materials, Electro-active materials, Shape memory alloys (SMA), Morphing, Magneto-active materials.

Advantages

• Exclusive competence in two Health Monitoring and Diagnotics techniques (various patents available for licensing):
  • Ultra sonic.
  • Electromagnetic.
• Integrated technologies for actuation systems.

Testing

• Design of technologies and test devices for structural health monitoring:

  • Real time detection and quantification of defects and damages.

• Various types of tests on intelligent materials and structures:

  • Health monitoring.
  • Shape control.
  • Vibratory control.

• Facilities include:

  • Structure analysis software.
  • Equipment for non-destructive evaluation; ultra sound, thermography, shearography.
  • Test facilities for static and dynamic mechanics – fatigue, failure, vibration, impact.
  • Wind tunnels and fluid-structure coupling methods.

Expertise

• Structural Health Monitoring for:
  • Design of intelligent structures.
  • Integrated and automatic sensor-actuator solutions.
• Self repairing materials.
• Technical advice and expertise.
• Assistance with critical experiments.
• Control, test and diagnosis.
• Numerical simulation.
• Development of methodology.
• Technical training.

Customers

• Dassault aviation, MBDA, Thales, AIA.