Aerospace

Rtec Instruments provides several ASTM, DIN, ISO standard and customized test solutions to evaluate aerospace coatings, materials, and components under extreme environment conditions. This includes cryogenic, and high temperatures, vacuum, and more.

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Aerospace Solutions We Offer

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Thermal Spray Coatings

In the aerospace industry, there are hundreds of key components that use thermal sprayed coatings. Rtec Instruments offers testers to measure coating adhesion, wear resistance, fretting resistance, friction, durability, hardness, roughness, and many more.

Multi Function Tribometer, MFT-5000

Indentation and Scratch Tester, SMT-5000

Fretting FFT Series

3D Optical Profilometers, UP Series

Fretting and Wear Resistance

Studying fretting, coatings, and materials in the aerospace industry is critical for new technology, space exploration, aging aircrafts, structural integrity, riveted aircraft structure, aircraft engines, aluminum alloys, and titanium alloys. Rtec Instruments provides unequaled specifications for stroke and frequency control for fretting evaluation. Controlled stroke from 5 microns and frequency up to 500 Hz frequency across a wide temperature range makes it an ideal fretting wear tester for both industry and university research.

Fretting FFT Series

Multi Function Tribometer, MFT-5000

3D view of fretting tribology of a surface by 3D optical microscope

High Temperature

Perform high temperature materials testing up to 1200 °C. Testing condition can mimic real-life scenarios, allowing users to generate data essential for solving real-life problems. Characterize hot hardness, friction, fretting wear, coating adhesion, and much more under controlled atmosphere conditions. These include inert gas, vacuum, multiple sample stages, and more.

Hot Hardness Tester

High Temperature Tribology on MFT-5000

Fretting FFT Series

Low Temperature – Cryogenic

Characterize friction, wear, and adhesion of materials and coatings under in cryogenic conditions up to -120°C using liquid nitrogen. Test under vacuum or non vacuum conditions.

Cryogenic Friction and Wear on MFT-5000

Rtec low temperature tribometer for cryogenic tribology

inside the Rtec Instruments vacuum tribometer

Vacuum Conditions

Test coatings and materials for space and aerospace industry under vacuum and controlled temperature. Measure friction, wear, adhesion, and durability under vacuum up to 10^-7 torr. Simultaneously control environmental conditions, from -120 °C to 800 °C.

Vacuum Tribometer (-120 to 800°C)

Multi Function Tribometer, MFT-5000

Abrasion, Erosion Resistance

Rtec Instruments provides several options for abrasion and erosion resistance testing. The Air Jet Erosion Tester, AJ-1000, performs repeated impact tests using a jet of gas loaded with abrasive particles to measure erosion of samples up to 900°C. The tribometer allows abrasion resistance testing in several modes across a wide load, speed, and temperature range. Measure roughness and the surface profile of rough test surfaces using confocal spinning disk technology on our profilometer.

Air Jet Erosion Tester, AJ-1000

Multi Function Tribometer, MFT-5000

3D Optical Profilometers, UP Series

3D view of wear of the surface by Rtec Instruments 3D Optical Profilometer

3D Imaging

Combine 4 imaging modes in one head. It requires only one click to alternate between the different imaging modes. Image any surface with ease – transparent, flat, dark, flat, curved, and more.

3D Optical Profilometers, UP Series