Solutions Provider for Aerospace & Defense
Interface has developed highly innovative force measurement solutions for a variety of complex and highly regulated industries. These industries require the most accurate and reliable test and measurement equipment on the market because bad data and unknown variables can spell disaster. This fact has never been truer than it is in the aerospace and defense sector.
For our worldwide customers in aerospace, Interface supplies a variety of sensor solutions, including load cells, tension links, load shackles, wireless instrumentation and more. And Interface is a proud supplier to some of the world leading manufacturing aircraft, spacecraft, military, and defense organizations such as the U.S. Government, NASA, Lockheed, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon, Bombardier, Embraer, Boeing, Airbus Gulfstream, Cessna and more of the world’s most prominent (and well known) rocket builders.
To further highlight our work in the aerospace and defense industry, we’ve also put together a case study outlining, in detail, some of the specific applications in which force measurement sensors can be used. The case study dives deeper into three specific applications highlighting the products used for aircraft wing fatigue, aircraft engine hoist, and parachute deployment and deceleration testing.
READ: The new Aerospace & Defense Case Study can be read in full here.
As a premier partner to these and many other leading global aerospace and defense companies, we’ve seen a lot of high-profile applications which require both off-the-shelf and custom manufactured force solutions. Our engineers and application experts partner with our customers to ensure they get the product that fits the exact requirements, weather it’s a submersible sensor or built for extreme compression and fatigue condition tests.
Our precision load cells have been used on thousands of different projects, both big and small. From aircrafts to ground vehicles and infrastructure, here are a few examples of the projects we’ve supplied various load cells, from jumbo to mini, various torque transducers, multi-axis sensors, customized load pins and as well as wireless telemetry testing systems:
- Rocket structural testing
- Fuselage assembly and testing
- Aircraft and wing fatigue testing
- Static structural testing
- Helicopter hoist testing
- Landing gear drop tests
- Parachute testing
- Landing gear shear pin tests
- Aircraft lift equipment
- Tire tests
- Jet engine thrust stands
- Production positioning equipment monitoring
- Space station docking simulator
- Aircraft engine hoisting
- Yoke control monitoring, yoke feedback and yoke return
- Brake testing and onboard force feedback
- Autopilot control and load verification
- Wind tunnel force vectors, balance characterization
- Aircraft assembly riveting equipment
- Reduced gravity simulations
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES:
Exploring Aerospace Force Measurement Solutions Blog
Launching into Orbit with Interface
Force Measurement for Space Travel
