Business Unit Northern Europe
Characterization and Engineering
The Business Unit’s activities are supported by the technical platforms of IMT Northern Europe’s research centers, offering a wide range of analysis and testing services, as well as engineering that combines prototyping, production engineering, numerical simulation, and data processing using artificial intelligence.
Our Expertise
Physico-chemical and Biological Characterization
Leaching of chemical compounds from certain constituents or products, chemical and biological analyses of water and air, and durability assessment in specified environments.
Mechanical Characterization of Parts and Structures
From finite element analysis to full-scale fatigue testing of parts or structural instrumentation, our expertise covers plastic, composite, metallic, and civil engineering materials.
Engineering for the Development of Test Benches, Demonstrators, and Production Lines
Design and development according to client specifications or our recommendations.
Our Services
Characterization Tests
Characterization of the mechanical properties of materials with tensile, compression, creep, impact, and bending tests.
Characterization of the physico-chemical properties of materials by infrared spectrometry, X-ray diffraction, thermogravimetry, optical and electron microscopies.
Fatigue Tests
Testing of complex and large-sized parts with multi-axial loads.
Tests can be instrumented with strain gauges, high-speed cameras, thermal cameras, and image correlation tests.
Durability Tests
Resistance to UV, freeze/thaw, humidity, cyclic pressure.
Leaching on monoliths or powders.
Biodegradation of plastics, composites, and construction materials.
On-site Tests
Multi-sensor acquisition on structures, non-destructive testing, embedded measurement, real-time analysis, research on constitutive laws, and numerical simulation.
Development of Test Benches
Implementation of innovative methods combining measurements performed by new devices and real-time data exploitation using artificial intelligence.
Prototype Development
Production of large-scale prototypes and proofs of concept based on data provided for companies and startups.
Creation of digital twins of the prototypes.
