Sealant Testing to Airbus internal standards
– Sample manufacture
– Tensile
– Peel
– Shore Hardness (ISO 868, ISO 48-4)
– Lap Shear
– Roller peel (ISO 4578)
Hot Fuel exposure
– Exposure of sealant samples to hot fuel prior to testing
Salt Spray Testing
– ISO 9227
– ASTM B117
Humidity exposure
– ISO 6270-1
Materials characterisation
– Optical microscopy
– SEM analysis
– EDX analysis
– Polishing and etching
– Optical 3D metrology & surface roughness measurements.
– Vickers Hardness BS EN ISO 6507-1
