THE VERIFICATION OF COMPOSITE STRUCTURES FOR LAUNCHERS, SATELLITE AND RE-ENTRY VEHICLES WITH CUSTOM QUASI-STATIC TEST JIGS

摘要

DTM has been responsible for the qualification and acceptance of many aerospace structures by means of quasistatic test jigs. Activities included test jig design, MAIT (manufacturing, assembly, integration and testing) and all necessary correlations between theoretical and experimental results. These activities have been performed for rocket launchers, re-entry vehicles and satellite structures. An insight of the verification strategies used by DTM will be described as well as the test and acquisition equipments which have been used to verify the correlation between the theoretical and experimental result which contributed to the success, among others, of the IXV, Sentinel 1 and Vega missions.