10.45-11.15 Highly Accelerated Life Tests and Highly Accelerated Stress Screens (HALT & HASS)More than a test method – A test philosophy

Hari Mountogianakis, Manufacturers Environmental Testing Specialist, TUV SUD Product Service GmbH

After a clear understanding of the goals in HALT and HASS, this test technique and philosophy gives you the opportunity to identify possible defects contained in your product, at an early point during the design. If executed in a clear and carefully way, the result will be a robust product with increased lifetime and reliability, reduced warranty issues and delighted and satisfied customers.

11.15-11.45 Trains, Planes, and Automobiles in the 21st Century - How Digital Prototyping Enables Design at the ‘Speed of Thought’

Ed Martin, Senior Manager, Automotive & Transportation, Autodesk, Inc

In this presentation, Ed Martin, Senior Manager for Autodesk’s Automotive and Transportation business, will examine design and engineering trends this field and cite case study examples of why the rapid design and production process afforded by digital prototyping now enables transportation companies to design and manufacture at “the speed of thought.” He will illustrate how digital prototyping can help in the creation of a single digital model that can be used in every stage of development, bridging the gaps that usually exist between conceptual design, engineering, mechanical design, electrical controls design, and manufacturing teams.

11.45-12.15 Force Measurement Standard

Neil Johnstone, Managing Director, Interface Force Measurements

Force measurements for aerospace and aircraft become more critical with each technological improvement in materials and the extremes to which these aircraft subjected. This paper presents some of the basic understanding of force sensors, and explains their selection and use in many aerospace testing applications. Many force testing applications utilize hydraulic actuators to effectively produce various poly-directional forces to a test body – knowing how a force sensor works in application will help design engineers ensure these test results are useful and valid.

12.15-12.45 Metrology throughout the whole aircrafts production process - when you need to be sure of geometries

Winfried Bruns, Project leader Metrology, SGS Germany GmbH

In the beginning Metrology is required within research and development. E.g. there has to be figured out the behaviour of CFRP within the autoclave-process. How big is the shrinking-effect or how does CFRP yield using big layer structured in coincidence with steeply inclined moulds? Afterwards Metrology is needed from building and adjusting plants up to approval of machines. In the next step Metrology helps evaluating quality of single parts machining and flexion. This is especially important in aviation where the tolerances of very complex parts have to be proofed and documented. After that Metrology supports the process of assembling parts.

Auditorium 3 - Day 3

Ground Testing

10.00-10.30 Actual Concepts and Implementations to improve the efficiency of ground test facilities at the EADS Military Air Systems Test Centre

Helmut Plankl, Senior Advisor, EADS Military Air Systems

With its cross-functional aircraft knowledge, the EADS Military Air Systems Test Centre provides expertise in the test concept definition, test program management and execution of rig integration, ground and flight testing. The seminar will give an actual view on some concepts and implementations to improve the efficiency of ground test facilities. Topics: - Modular tools and networks for test preparation and planning, configuration management, monitoring and control of business activities, electrical and optical switching networks and power distribution. - Way ahead to automatic test generation, test management and automatic test execution. - Aspects of tool qualification for interactive and for automatic testing.

10.30-11.00 Accelerated GVT testing through an integrated GVT process: a combination of test and simulation leads to an increased testing efficiency

Jan Debille, Aerospace Testing Solutions Manager, LMS

11.00-11.30

Ground vibration testing (GVT) is typically performed very late in the development process. The main purpose of the test is to obtain experimental vibration data of the aircraft structure for validating and improving its structural dynamic models. Due to limited availability of the aircraft for a GVT and the fact that multiple configurations need to be tested, an extreme time pressure exists to get test results. This presentation discusses recent hardware and software technology advancements for performing GVT that are able to realize testing and analysis time reduction without compromising the accuracy of the results.

Efficient fuel leak location

Matthias Block, Market Manager, Alcatel Hochvakuumtechnik GmbH

Today various methods for aircraft fuel leak location are available. They’re either are based on visual inspection, pressure measurement or on tracer gases. These methods can be evaluated on the time needed for pin pointing leaks and their reliability. Quick and precise leak location in parallel to high reliability are the key factors for reducing aircraft ground time. Applying the most efficient method in connection with especially designed tools ensures a return on investment after a few repair jobs only.

11.30-12.00 X86 Multi Core based Test Support Systems

Harald Lenz, Development Engineer, EADS Deutschland GmbH

AIDASS is a Test Support System (TSS) for the complete lifecycle of an aircraft, from early system prototyping to pre flight ground tests. In the last few years, evolution in PC technology brought multi core systems and hardware virtualization. These features allow running multiple operating systems independently in one system. In the AIDASS case one CPU core with Windows is used for the GUI, the other cores perform real time processing. In combination with PCI based I/O interfaces we can build small and portable TSS with cost effective PC technology; with PC Card interfaces even Laptop based TSS are possible.

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