Local initiative Supply chain 66 Y of tradition 30 companies 8000 employees Rzeszow University of Technology Airport AVIATION VALLEY ASSOCIATION - partner

• Local initiative

• Supply chain

• 66 Y of tradition

• 30 companies

• 8000 employees

• Rzeszow University of Technology

• Airport

AVIATION VALLEY AVIATION VALLEY ASSOCIATIONASSOCIATION - partner - partner

http://www.dolinalotnicza.pl

Snecma Polska Sp. z o.o. founded in 2001

• Producer of gears and shafts for military and civil aircraft engines,Employment: 35

AVIATION VALLEY AVIATION VALLEY ASSOCIATIONASSOCIATION - partner- partner

SNECMA POLSKA Sp. z o.o.

Company of Aviation Valley Association

"PZL-Świdnik" S.A.founded in 1951

• Producer of helicopters: SW-4, W-3 Sokół family, Mi-2, PZL - Kania; gliders: PW-5 and PW-6; airframe structures.

• Training of helicopter flying and maintenance personnel.

Employment: ~2400

AVIATION VALLEY AVIATION VALLEY ASSOCIATIONASSOCIATION – partner– partner

"PZL-ŚWIDNIK" S.A.


Avio Polskafounded in 2001

• Engineering Center for design and analyses of selected high-tech aeronautical engine components:

- turbine disks, blades, vanes, structures

- gearboxes

- space propulsion parts• Product Unit for manufacturing of

high-tech turbine blades for aeronautical enginesEmployment: ~100

AvioPolska AVIATION VALLEY AVIATION VALLEY ASSOCIATIONASSOCIATION – partner– partner

AVIO POLSKA Sp. z o.o.AVIO POLSKA Sp. z o.o.


MARGAŃSKI & MYSŁOWSKI ZADŁADY LOTNICZE Sp. z o.o. founded in 1986

• First private aviation company in Poland after II WW

• Repairs of gliders and light airplanes• Reconstruction of old-timers• Production of competition aerobatic

gliders• Development of gliders, light airplanes

and a training jet• Development of composite structures

(wind turbine blades, motor-car bodies etc.). Employment: 34

AVIATION VALLEY AVIATION VALLEY ASSOCIATIONASSOCIATION – partner– partner

MARGAŃSKI & MYSŁOWSKI ZADŁADY LOTNICZE Sp. z o.o.

• The biggest aerospace companyin Poland

• Acquired by UTC in 2002

• Fast and dynamic development

• Investment of 50 M USD sincethe acquisition

• Know how and new technology transfer

• WSK has become a locomotiveof the region

• WSK has initiated Aviation Valley

• F-16 offset funding support Aviation Valley


WSK „PZL – Rzeszów” S.A.Company of Aviation Valley Association

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AN EXAMPLE OF INDUSTRIAL LABORATORY

FOUNDRY, MECHANICAL, METALLOGRPHIC LABORATORIES


WSK „PZL – Rzeszów” S.A.

Employees employed and collaborating with the labs

GROUPNumber

of persons

Engineering lab personnel 26

Engineering technology personnel 37

Auxiliary lab personnel 19



Term Foundry Laboratories means the units in Metallurgical Plant and

Casting Bussines Unit that carry out tests and investigations for the

Metallurgical Plant and CBU and some test for other Shops of WSK

Rzeszow. The Laboratories deal with following:

•Chemical Analysis •Metallography and Mechanical Testing •Mould and Core Materials Testing•X-ray and Penetrant Defectoscopy•Dimensional Measuring

Description of activityDescription of activity



CAPABILITY - BASIC EQUIPMENT

Instrumental chemical analysis of metals

Core equipment

Thermo ARL4460 for Fe, Al, Ni, CoOptical emission spectrometers Baird Model DV 4 and Yvon Jobin 132F

for Fe, Al, Ni, Co, Mg, Ti and Baird Model FS 1 for Fe

Analyser C, S HORIBA 8200

Spectrophotometer MARCEL PRO

Gas chromatograph HP 4890D;

Glass film spectrograph units

Chemical Analysis



Chemical Analysis

Opitacal emission spectrometer Thermo- ARL 4460



Chemical Analysis

Opitacal emission spectrometer BAIRD DV4



Chemical Analysis

Opitacal emission spectrometer

Jvon Yobin JY 132F



Chemical Analysis

C S analyzer HORIBA EMIA 8200




Macro evaluation (grain size, grain flow, fracture)Microstructure evaluation (microporosity, alloy depletion etc.) using computer

aided methodCore equipment

Optical metallography microscopes joined with computer equipment with quantitative image processing software (APHELION, METILO. AXIO VISION & MULTISCAN) ) and all

auxiliary devices: OLYMPUS MPG 3 ZEISS Axiovert 200 MAT, NEOPHOT 2 Stereoscopy microscope ZEISS STEMI DV4 Metalography polishing machine LAMPLAN

Set of machines for sample preparing

Metallography



Metallography microscopes

OLYMPUS PMG 3 NEOPHOT 2

Metallography



Metallography

Metallography microscope

ZEISS Axiovert 200 MAT Stereoscopy microscope

ZEISS STEMI DV4



Metallography polisher

Lamplan

Metallography




Tensile testing at room temperature;Impact testing (Charpy method at room and minus temperatures to –70oC);

Hardness testing (Brinell and Rockwell)

Core equipment

Testing machine with extensometer and test software for mechanical testing ZWICK 200 kN & ZWICK 100 kN.

Impact test Charpy pendulum hammer with frozen facility to tests at minus temperaturesTesters Brinell & Rockwell

Mechanical Testing



Mechanical Testing

Testing machine ZWICK 10 kN



Mould and Core Materials Testing


Testing all materials (sands, binders and additives) used for mouldand core making;

Testing mould and core mixtures ready for use;Evaluation new materials before implementation into production

Core equipment

Kit of units for testing and investigations mould and core material during receiving and „in process” control



Mould and Core Materials Testing

Strength mixture testerGaseous tester



X-ray DefectoscopyCAPABILITY - BASIC EQUIPMENT

X-ray defectoscopy of products using film and real time free-film methods

Core equipment

• X-ray Apparatus of 320 kV - ANDREX, YXLON –225 kV – YXLON i 160 kV - PHILIPS film-free fluoroscopy image detection facility

• Film Processor NDT AGFA• Kit of equipment fot radiograph viewing ans X-ray

system control



X-ray Defectoscopy

Free-film X-ray apparatus with real time fluoroscopy image detecting



X-ray Defectoscopy

X-ray Apparatus DC320 kV YXLON

Film ProcessorNDT AGFA



Fluorescent Penetrant Defectoscopy


Surface defectoscopy of products for detectindg unvisible „open to surface” micro – defects

Core equipmentLine for penetrant treatment and developing of the defectsKit of equipment for detection of the defects under UV ligth

(black light)



Fluorescent Penetrant Defectoscopy

Line for penetrant treatment and developing of the defects



Dimensional Measuring

MCAPABILITY - BASIC EQUIPMENT

Measuring all dimensions including airfoil profiles derived from mathematical curves and surface

textures Core equipment

Universal Electronic Measuring Machines MITUTOYO & IOSSet of miscenlaous conventional measuring instruments and gaids



Dimensional Measuring

Universal Electronic Measuring Machines CMM MITUTOYO



TASKS of SECTIONTest and Measurement Section carries out among other things:

-vibration measurements, acquisition and analysis including modal analysis of gearboxes and aviation engines components

-machine tools diagnostic

-vibration measurement of base

-measurements, acquisition and analysis of static and dynamic stress (also in rotating parts)

-fatigue tests of samples, blades and other gearboxes and aviation engines components

-measurements of pressure, fluid flow, noise, temperature and rotating speed

-developing of the software for PCs cooperating with measurement devices – electronic system of blade dimensions inspection, data acquisition systems, measurement stands etc.

-designing and manufacture specialized measurement devices (e.g. for vibration measurements, microprocesor torque measurement systems)



MULTI-CHANNEL ANALYSIS & DATA ACQUISITION SYSTEM PULSE



32-CHANNEL ANALYSIS & DATA ACQUISITION SYSTEM ESAM 3000



STAND FOR FATIGUE TESTS



16-CHANNEL DAT RECORDER PC216Ax



DIGITAL STORAGE OSCILLOSCOP CLASSIC 6500



4-CHANNEL CONDITIONING AMPLIFIERS



ACCELEROMETERS & IMPACT HAMMER FOR MODAL ANALYSIS



PRESSURE TRANSDUCERS



4-CHANNEL COLLECTOR (MERCURY, 20000 rpm)



Capability of Main Metallurgist WSK „PZL-RZESZÓW” S.A. Department

laboratories.



Certificates of Laboratory



Strength tests

• Stress rupture tests



Strength tests

• Creep tests



Strength tests

Tensile tests at environmentand elevated temperature

(up to 1000 deg. C).



Strength tests

• Hardness measurements



Strength tests

• Heat treatment of samples

• Jominy test



Metallographic tests

• Microscopic evaluation (material microstructure, diffusion coatings microstructure, near surface changes microstructure, etc.)




• HV i HK microhardness measurements and evaluation of hardened cases depthby microhardness distribution method




Material expertise – identification of material defects, causes determination of damages and failures parts of assemblies after operation



Planned purchase of laboratory equipment

• Equipment for preparing of metallographic samples(cut-off machine, automatic polishing machine)

• Optical microscopes• Rockwell, SuperRockwell and Brinell hardness testing machines• Salt spray chamber• Furnace for heat treatment of samples• Thermal chamber with forced circulation of air



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Local initiative Supply chain 66 Y of tradition 30 companies 8000 employees Rzeszow University of Technology Airport AVIATION VALLEY ASSOCIATION - partner