We are the leading center for designing and testing aircraft landing gear in Poland. A significant part of the landing gears of aircraft and helicopters manufactured in Polish factories has been designed and tested in our laboratory, which offers a set of comprehensive engineering services, such as design, analysis, testing and supervision over the execution of prototypes. We run, among others testings of the landing gears, brakes and other structures in the scope of:

• energy intensity,
• static strength,
• dynamic and fatigue,
• dynamic characteristics,
• functional,
• resistance to shock loads in accordance with FAR, EASA, MIL, AP regulations.

We have accreditation of the Polish Center for Accreditation with the number AB-131.

Among the goals we set for ourselves is the development of technology, proposing new construction and technological solutions, their verification with the use of testing methods, construction of tests beds and supervision over the implementation of prototypes of technology demonstrators.

Lending gears testing – research scope (in accordance with the scope of accreditation)

• force: 0.1 to 400 kN;
• displacement: 0.05 to 2400 mm;
• relative strains: 10 to 15000 μm/m;
• speed of rotation: 10 to 20000 rpm.;
• acceleration: 0 to 200 m/s²;
• pressure: 0 to 60 MPa;
• temperature: -40°C to +1084°C.

Measurement methods:

• electrical measurements of physical quantities;
• thermal imaging measurements with the FLIR SC645 camera (out of accreditation);
• measurements with the fast Phantom VEO 410L camera (out of accreditation).

Landing gears testing – scope

Landing gears testing include, among others:

• aircraft landing gears,
• breaks,
• bearings,
• frictional materials,
• shock absorbers,
• silencers,
• energy intensity,
• static and dynamic strength,
• fatigue,
• dynamic and functional characteristics,
• shock load resistance.