Innovative Test Solutions (ITS) provides a comprehensive menu of destructive and non-destructive defense testing services. Since its founding in 2004, ITS has cultivated an impeccable reputation for offering advanced testing solutions for defense, aerospace, and military systems, materials, and components.
In recognition of the importance of replicating real-world operating conditions, the ITS team offers tailored and custom military-grade testing that delivers precision and reliability.
Why Choose Innovative Test Solutions for Defense Industry Testing?
ITS has decades of expertise and experience providing aerospace and defense testing in addition to its work with other demanding industries. The ITS team follows stringent physical and mechanical testing standards, adapting when necessary to ensure compliance. Doing so while performing vital tests allows for close examination and assessment of materials to determine their strength, lifespan, and safety once they are put into use. ITS understands the importance of testing to specified standards to ensure all samples will perform as intended, even in extreme, high-stress environments.
Our state-of-the-art testing laboratory is ISO/IEC 17025 accredited, and our team of experts has decades of combined engineering expertise. From providing standard defense testing services to custom testing solutions, the ITS team has a proven track record of meeting rigorous standards.
Specialized Testing Services for the Defense Industry
ITS provides a broad range of military-grade testing solutions. Each test is designed to deliver critical data to help companies understand how samples will perform in real-world applications for enhanced safety.
JETS Testing
ITS conducts jet engine thermal shock (JETS) on JETS rigs developed and designed by its own team. These rigs offer versatility to accommodate various sample geometries and testing temperatures. JETS testing simulates jet engine thermal shock conditions to determine the durability of critical military aircraft and defense system components.
Junker Testing
The loosening of fasteners can be catastrophic. With Junker vibration testing, bolted joints undergo meticulous testing to assess the self-loosening characteristics of fasteners. Performing this specialized test allows engineers to ensure bolted joint reliability in vehicles and equipment that are subjected to frequent and extreme vibration.
Creep Testing & Stress Rupture Testing
Cylindrical or flat, no matter the specimen’s geometry or size, ITS can evaluate material properties to test for failure in extreme operating conditions. Mechanical stress and high operating temperatures can cause deformation and, eventually, failure. Reliability testing for defense systems and components offers vital insight into long-term material behavior. The resulting data is critical for evaluating the durability of aerospace and defense materials.
Sub-Mini Creep Testing
Samples with limited materials have been challenging to test for creep and stress rupture in the past. That’s why ITS designed the equipment necessary to perform creep rupture testing on sub-miniature samples. The team can extract subscale test articles from components already in service or in existence. Then, during the testing process, we assess the behavior of small-scale components under stress and high temperatures. This is particularly essential to evaluate prototypes and replacement parts.
Fatigue Testing
Fatigue and strain can have a significant impact on the safety of a structure. With ITS’ high-cycle and low-cycle fatigue testing, it’s possible to predict how materials will perform in simulated real-world use cases. The result is increased safety and reduced failure rates. Fatigue testing also helps predict the performance and life expectancy of materials and components, including aircraft wings, engine parts, and vehicle frames.
Additive Manufacturing Testing
Additive manufacturing can help modernize defense systems while improving performance, reducing supply chain bottlenecks and equipment downtime, and enhancing efficiency and reliability.1 However, additive manufacturing is only as effective and helpful as the integrity of its parts. ITS’ additive manufacturing testing verifies the structural integrity and performance of 3D-printed parts. In turn, the data supports the rapid prototyping and production of these parts and their use in defense.
Vibration Testing
Vibration testing services simulate operational conditions. Using shaker systems, ITS can assess how components will behave under vibration to predict performance in dynamic environments such as tanks, aircraft, and other equipment.
Industries We Serve in the Defense Sector
Just as the defense industrial base conducts operations by air, land, and sea, ITS serves the various industries that comprise this vast worldwide complex. From aerospace to emerging technologies, our comprehensive testing services provide deep insights into the products and materials used in a dynamic and demanding sector.
Aerospace
Materials testing plays a significant role in reducing dangers and enhancing safety of products, components, and materials used in the aerospace industry. It offers data that engineers and manufacturers can use to refine designs and material selection. The insights also help predict product lifespans and maintenance needs to reduce unplanned downtime and system failures.2
Land Systems
To ensure the safety and reliability of land systems, including combat vehicles, artillery, weapons systems, state-of-the-art command and control systems, and surveillance equipment,3 ITS provides military-grade testing to provide the deep insights necessary to validate the design and manufacture of land-based defense equipment.4
Naval Systems
When you can predict the performance of components and materials, you can help mitigate potential failures. Material testing for naval systems is critical for research and development, product refinement, regulatory compliance, and quality control. Ultimately, it’s also vital to ensure the safety of those operating and using the equipment and systems.
Emerging Technologies
Whether they are used in training or actual operations, emerging technologies can provide numerous benefits. From improved resilience to enhanced protection for users to reduced lifecycle costs,5 emerging technologies are only as advantageous as their actual performance. Defense materials testing validates these technologies, augments performance, and ensures compliance with regulations and standards.6
Advanced Testing Solutions for Defense Materials and Systems
The ITS team is comprised of engineers across all disciplines, each devoted to using advanced methods and innovative technology to evaluate defense components. Using a combination of automated data collection, computer-aided fixture design, and computer-controlled testing, the team can evaluate the performance and reliability of defense components.
ITS’ expert team can perform both standard testing and design custom tests to meet the rigorous standards and requirements of specific and demanding defense applications. When standard equipment isn’t up to the task, we create custom test rigs and curate specialized testing methods to meet the specimen’s requirements.
Certifications and Compliance Standards for Defense Testing
ITS adheres to all industry and government standards, including all relevant defense standards (MIL-STD), to ensure our testing methods comply with the Department of Defense and other organizations’ stringent guidelines.7 Our full-service mechanical engineering and testing laboratory is ISO/IED 17025 accredited and staffed by industry experts. The ITS team is highly skilled in ASTM testing protocols, custom testing and analysis, and the maintenance of all industry and government standards throughout the process.
Contact ITS for Expert Defense Testing Services
ITS delivers state-of-the-art military-grade testing and advanced testing solutions for defense applications of all kinds. With our extensive menu of standard testing options and custom solutions, ITS offers the most rigorous testing available to meet the unique demands of defense testing.
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