Transfert de technologie

Cryogenic Technology

Applications

Structure fatigue test
  Static tensile test

 > Aeronautics & Space

• Behaviour of aerospace structures at high altitude / in space.
• Design of stings, parts and airplanes models for cryogenic wind tunnels.
• Cryogenic tanks for rockets.

 > Cryogenic Engineering

• Storage of cryogenic fluids.
• Food and chemical industries.
• Energy and health domains.

 > Transport

• Transportation of cryogenic fluids (insulation of tanks walls for boats, buses and vans...
• Cryogenic taps and joints

Keywords

• Cryogenic tests, Tanks, Storage, Fluids, Energy, Measurements, Space, Health, Food, Chemistry

Advantages

• A large range of mechanical tests which can be easily performed on materials and equipments from -196° to 20 °C.
• Instrumentation calibration (temperature sensors, strain gages, pressure…).
• Insulation evaluation at low temperature.
• Specific and customized tests: friction, roughness...

Testing

• Conventional mechanical tests (tensile, flexure, charpy...but also more specific to brittleness, fatigue failure with stress concentration evaluations - dynamic tests
  • Testing of various materials, assemblies (bonded, welded, screwed or bolted joints) and complete parts
  • Facilities: tensile static and dynamic machines equipped with cryogenic cabinets and fed by LN2 supplies - specimen instrumented with adapted sensor

Expertise

• Over 25 years of experience in:
  • Manufacture of parts and modeling for cryogenic wind tunnels
  • Materials and mechanical parts characterisations for various customer

Customers

• ETW, Cryospace, SNCF, EDF, Dassault Aviation, DCN…

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