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Structures Testing Services

Results you need to succeed

Will your product’s structure perform as intended? Find out at Boeing.

Boeing structures testing professionals collaborate with you to match your product’s structure requirements to Boeing’s vast array of static, fatigue, pressure, thermal and vacuum testing resources. You get the results you need to succeed.

No matter how big or small your structural test is, Boeing can deliver the right people and the right resources for your product’s testing.

Boeing works for you.

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Structural testing

Boeing structural testing consists of test engineers who are highly skilled and test facilities that are highly configurable.

We offer the following types of solutions:

Qualification testing

  • Federal Aviation Administration conformity testing
  • Qualification and acceptance testing
  • Department of Defense, NASA, etc.

Development testing

  • Large-scale component and vehicle testing
    • Full-scale static testing
    • Full-scale fatigue testing
    • Full scale – combined nvironments
    • Air loads and calibration
    • Control system proof and operations
  • Small- and medium-scale component and vehicle testing
    • Static testing (simple and complex)
    • Mechanism testing
    • Fatigue testing – component
    • Pressure testing
    • High-velocity impact testing
    • Static test – extreme environments
    • Powertrain and transmission testing

Component and sub-element testing

  • 3,500-kip universal test machine
  • Static 3.5 M pounds
  • Fatigue 2.5 M pounds

Temperature testing (static and fatigue)

  • Non-ambient temperature tests (minus 75 F through 500 F)
  • Extreme low temperature tests (under minus 75 F)
  • Extreme high temperature tests (over 500 F)
  • Non-ambient temperature and humidity tests

Composite and metals testing (static and fatigue)

  • Standard and nonstandard composite tests
  • Standard and nonstandard metal tests

Materials testing — environmental

  • Temperature cycling
  • Temperature and humidity cycling
  • Temperature conditioning
  • Temperature and humidity conditioning

Experimental mechanics

  • Full field displacement/strain measurements
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Contact Boeing Testing Services via email at bts@boeing.com.

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